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Ralph Nader, born on February 27, 1934, is an American consumer rights activist. He is renowned for his advocacy on consumer protection, particularly in areas such as automotive safety, drug safety, and food hygiene. Nader's activities and publications have prompted the enactment of numerous consumer protection laws.

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Famous Ralph Nader Quotes

“General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.”

Ifs Money Willing Sells Motor General Motors Delaware

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“If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.”

Ifs Turns Turn-on

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“If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.”

Ifs Country Air Sea Land Tears Symbols Flags Unpatriotic Land And Sea

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“If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.”

Ifs Stills Two Evil You Choose Lesser Evil Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils

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“There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.”

“George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.”

Ifs Way Majors Campaigns Vulnerable Candidates Dean Campaigning

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“Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.”

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“If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.”

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“We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Country States Young Turns Focus Easier Congress Legislature Levers State Legislatures

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“We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.”

Ifs Kind Two Country Turns Party Focus Information Members Concern Green Congress Our Country Corporate Agendas Representatives Senators Turnaround Hijacking Green Party

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“It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.”

Ifs Democracy Limits Leaving Candidates Bubbles Consultants Pundits

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“If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.”

Ifs Sugar Dentist

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“If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.”

Ifs Turns Democracy Turn-on

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“If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.”

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“If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.”

Ifs Years War Five Nuclear Civil War Five Years Nuclear Reactors

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“If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.”

Ifs Two Evil Vote Lesser Evil Two Evils Lesser Of Two Evils

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“Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.”

Ifs Care Issues Focus Policy Taxes Racism Health Care Concentration Decay Urban Homophobia

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“If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.”

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“The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.”

“This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Interest Powerful Rich Dignity Vote

Author:Ralph Nader