"I have a consistent rule: The American..." - Quote by Ralph Nader
I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.
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“We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.”
“Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.”
“I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'”
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“There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.”
“Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.”
“It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…”
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“An index is a great leveller.”
“The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what extent Saddam [Hussein] was trying to convey an incorrect picture to us.”
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”