Quote by Ralph Nader
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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. – Ralph Nader

Other quotes by Ralph Nader

The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse. – Ralph Nader

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Politics
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. – Ralph Nader

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Insurance
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Other Quotes from
Government
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. – Daniel Webster

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Government

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. – John Wycliffe

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Government

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. – P. J. ORourke

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Government

Its easy being a humorist when youve got the whole government working for you. – Will Rogers

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Government

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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I dont think that way. I still dont have a bliss to follow. For people like me – I suspect thats most people – holding out for a dream or a passion is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. Thats hard enough… but its enough. – Jane Pauley

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Dreams

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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History
[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Fate

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. – Ruth E. Renkl

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