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Best Quotes by Ralph Nader (Top 10)
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses"側in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
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More Ralph Nader Quotes
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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