There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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.
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Isn't it about time that the US government stop supporting dictatorships and avaricious oligarchies with our tax monies, munitions and diplomacy?
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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.
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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