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RALPH NADER It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the...
RALPH NADER I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and c...
RALPH NADER This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
RALPH NADER Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
RALPH NADER Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas...
RALPH NADER The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
RALPH NADER Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
RALPH NADER The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf...
RALPH NADER No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
RALPH NADER The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe...
RALPH NADER John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b...
RALPH NADER The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their...
RALPH NADER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
RALPH NADER The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH NADER If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
RALPH NADER There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
RALPH NADER When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
RALPH NADER For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a...
RALPH NADER This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
RALPH NADER Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
RALPH NADER Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized mu...
RALPH NADER Your best teacher is your last mistake.
RALPH NADER I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said t...
RALPH NADER Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candi...
RALPH NADER The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
RALPH NADER The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
RALPH NADER Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
RALPH NADER This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doin...
RALPH NADER I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more follow...
RALPH NADER We must strive to become good ancestors.
RALPH NADER I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more follo...
RALPH NADER I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more follo...
RALPH NADER The administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
RALPH NADER The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.
RALPH NADER People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
RALPH NADER I think ... Gore and Bush are, shall we say, chicken here.
RALPH NADER Do you think Gore is entitled to any votes? Do you think Bush is entitled -- am I entitled to any vo...
RALPH NADER Gore and Bush couldn't say no to that.
RALPH NADER [Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't stick to trade…they colonize enviro...
RALPH NADER Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
RALPH NADER Al Gore thinks he is entitled to your votes. Al Gore thinks that we're supposed to be helping him ge...
RALPH NADER Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, ... it won't matter who wins.
RALPH NADER These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers.
RALPH NADER [Enrich argued and won the 6th Circuit case, which he says] casts a dark cloud over incentives all a...
RALPH NADER These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers,
RALPH NADER a giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.
RALPH NADER Any diversion from that, even rooted in principle, interferes with that goal,
RALPH NADER I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporati...
RALPH NADER dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech.
RALPH NADER Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.
RALPH NADER of increasing the number of presidential debates and including more voices in those debates.
RALPH NADER Often you used the name of your home town as a metaphor for your 1992 presidential campaign, 'The ma...
RALPH NADER For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a stea...
RALPH NADER We don't have a democracy. An election is supposed to involve choice. We don't have a choice.
RALPH NADER As the clear and active Republican front runner for 2008, McCain is not just a conservative. Otherwi...
RALPH NADER Over the next four and one half months, this campaign must challenge the campaigns of the Bush and G...
RALPH NADER [Washington is] corporate-occupied territory, ... We need more political and civic energies inside t...
RALPH NADER He's got an obsession to immunize corporations,
RALPH NADER One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and...
RALPH NADER This is a medical malpractice crisis. Over 80,000 Americans, 220 every day, die from medical neglige...
RALPH NADER Taxpayers have been tricked into paying the oil companies and their wealthy investors billions throu...
RALPH NADER I used to think of California as in the vanguard. Now its school spending is among the bottom 10. We...
RALPH NADER A 'no' vote will potentially save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
RALPH NADER This is another frivolous complaint that the FEC has properly dismissed.
RALPH NADER It is extremism when corporations corrupt our government, buy and rent our politicians, block our ac...
RALPH NADER I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy,
RALPH NADER We can't simply stand by idly and watch democracy and our government be turned over to the commercia...
RALPH NADER There's a tremendous bias in state laws against third parties and independent candidates, bred by th...
RALPH NADER O'Neill is in the minority. They take it as a deduction. If it isn't compensation, then what is it?
RALPH NADER There is, as well, a consumer issue at stake here. Fans have purchased tickets for Eagles' games, in...
RALPH NADER He's got an obsession to immunize corporations.
RALPH NADER It's just breaking us up. The heart that's been beating since 1906 couldn't make it until (Feb. 7). ...
RALPH NADER She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.
RALPH NADER The citizen activists have no idea what they can discover just by thumbing through it.
RALPH NADER Neither party can afford to stand tall for the American people and oppose the takeover of our politi...
RALPH NADER We now have a two-party system that is overwhelmed with its own arrogance and complacency, ... It of...
RALPH NADER All these candidates talk about children. George W. Bush has pictures with minority kids all the tim...
RALPH NADER This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended -- not ...
RALPH NADER Why do you have to stimulate the economy when there's huge unused capacity, when there's plenty of c...
RALPH NADER Unsafe at any speed
RALPH NADER It's quite pioneering, having all those actors play Lennon. That's hard to pull off.
RALPH NADER I think people should vote their conscience. We have a chance to build a major third party, we have ...
RALPH NADER suffering from election-year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be p...
RALPH NADER Right away, on November 8, the Green Party's a major watchdog party on those two parties.
RALPH NADER I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.
RALPH NADER They're going to have to reach out or they're going to lose votes.
RALPH NADER But you've heard him speak about Saddam. For every question we put to the president about domestic n...
RALPH NADER Why are these two men afraid? They should overcome their fear of facing new ideas and alternative vo...
RALPH NADER If Al Gore does not change the spectrum of his agenda and broaden it out, he is going to lose Califo...
RALPH NADER I don't want to exaggerate it, so I'll just say massively more.
RALPH NADER Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competitio...
RALPH NADER Greens all over the globe will need to develop the facilities of democracy for voters, workers, cons...
RALPH NADER Unpatriotic corporations abandon our country and shift industries abroad, along with what is left of...
RALPH NADER We get one Republican vote for every two Democratic votes, some polls have told us.
RALPH NADER Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
RALPH NADER Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not se...
RALPH NADER Let's say that the situation in your home town, where some say the trailers in the mud are deteriora...
RALPH NADER The dominant institution in this country is the giant corporation.
RALPH NADER This country is run by a war criminal and his vice president, an even bigger war criminal.
RALPH NADER Microsoft doesn't respect the antitrust laws, and it has amply demonstrated that it can't be trusted...
RALPH NADER The bill is anti-consumer and anti-community, ... It will mean higher prices and fewer choices for l...
RALPH NADER After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I've decided to run ...
RALPH NADER MasterCard should lighten up, they are taking their name 'Master' too seriously, ... This is America...
RALPH NADER We're going to prove them wrong in November,
RALPH NADER Most of them (Democrats and Republicans) are politicians with fingers to the wind, ... And if I win,...
RALPH NADER To shut out legitimate third-party candidates from these debates is to limit the competitive democra...
RALPH NADER Day after day on television, Mr. Bush comes on and goes after [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein,
RALPH NADER You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the marg...
RALPH NADER What good is [Al] Gore if he can't beat Bush? I mean, Gore is beating Gore.
RALPH NADER This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
RALPH NADER Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis ...
RALPH NADER Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
RALPH NADER Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize thei...
RALPH NADER President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and no...
RALPH NADER Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
RALPH NADER A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being conf...
RALPH NADER The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
RALPH NADER cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good...
RALPH NADER It is extremism when corporations corrupt our government, buy and rent our politicians, block our ac...
RALPH NADER Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life...
RALPH NADER God is the name we give our conscience.
NADER SHUREIH They are two very different things. The money designated for one doesn't affect the other.
NADER AGHA It's only a thought and an idea, but everything starts with an idea.
NADER AGHA We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.
NADER AGHA I am not interested in the newspaper because I am a developer. I am interested because I can make a ...
NADER AGHA There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinia...
NADER SAID We think our fans are really going to take to this bet. In the past, our on-line game, Showdown, in ...
BILL NADER The weather this winter was favorable and the racing offered solid, competitive fields vying for the...
BILL NADER That might be wishful thinking. It's an ambitious place to go, but we put it there.
BILL NADER We've been desperately trying to get construction started and the project completed and now it appea...
BILL NADER This is good for the novice. They can absorb the complexity of a multi-leg bet and understand it eas...
BILL NADER What is the matter with you?"
"You want an alphabetical list?
ELISA NADER انسان خوب، هر جا دوستى داشته باشد، بى شک دشمنى هم دارد. �...
NADER EBRAHIMI روزگارى، غريبه اى را ديدم كه در صحرا گم شده بود. از او پر...
NADER EBRAHIMI The most perplexing yet marvellous phenomena to me so far, is that connecting the dots and seeing pa...
NADER IBRAHIM دختر سياسى، بهتر از پسر سياسى است. مردان، انگار كه براى ...
NADER EBRAHIMI شاگردى كه كمتر از معلمش بداند، دنيا را به عقب مى راند؛ ش...
NADER EBRAHIMI If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
NADER AL-MASRI I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
NADER AL-MASRI I don't have proper places to run.
NADER AL-MASRI I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza S...
NADER AL-MASRI If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athlet...
NADER AL-MASRI I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only ...
NADER AL-MASRI I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions...
NADER AL-MASRI Low turnout was a definite setback.
AHMAD NADER NADERY These people are a threat to the future National Assembly. They may impose their own interpretation ...
AHMAD NADER NADERY I'm subject to anything but stupidity
NADER N. DAGHER In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have...
RALPH GIBSON Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your f...
RALPH MARSTON I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
RALPH WAITE Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut o...
RALPH WAITE 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off...
RALPH WAITE The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on...
RALPH WAITE I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a l...
RALPH WAITE I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
RALPH WAITE You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
RALPH WAITE There is no truly global justice.
RALPH STEADMAN Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes...
RALPH STEADMAN Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
RALPH STEADMAN I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
RALPH STEADMAN We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
RALPH STEADMAN Isolationism is over.
RALPH STEADMAN I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what bei...
RALPH STEADMAN Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
RALPH STEADMAN Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
RALPH STEADMAN I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affe...
RALPH STEADMAN The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
RALPH STEADMAN Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and r...
RALPH STEADMAN You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force...
RALPH STEADMAN God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
RALPH STEADMAN It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
RALPH STEADMAN You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even ...
RALPH STEADMAN Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference ...
RALPH STEADMAN I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
RALPH STEADMAN Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out o...
RALPH STEADMAN I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
RALPH STEADMAN The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost...
RALPH STANLEY I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley...
RALPH STANLEY I believe in my music.
RALPH STANLEY I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can&...
RALPH STANLEY I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to...
RALPH STANLEY I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
RALPH STANLEY We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into tea...
RALPH REGULA In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes th...
RALPH REGULA My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH a...
RALPH REGULA People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By be...
RALPH REGULA Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal se...
RALPH RANSOM Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...
RALPH PETERS I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser...
RALPH PETERS The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
RALPH PETERS Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...
RALPH PETERS Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
RALPH PETERS Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
RALPH PETERS Social peace requires reciprocity.
RALPH PETERS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'...
RALPH PETERS The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...
RALPH PETERS The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...
RALPH PETERS