This reminds me of something I once read of Ralph Nader: Karen Croft, a writer who worked for Nader in the late 1970s at the Center for Study of Responsive Law

This reminds me of something I once read of Ralph Nader: Karen Croft, a writer who worked for Nader in the late 1970s at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, once asked him if he had ever considered getting married. She reports: "He said that at a certain point he had to decide whether to have a family or to have a career, that he couldn't have both. That's the kind of person he is. He couldn't have a wife—he's up all night reading the Congressional Record." [1] There's a part of me that admires the sense of devotion to a personal vision or mission. I believe it's this unrelenting, screw-the-consequences, type of drive that create greatness. At the same time, as a young single man in his 20s, I am still wrestling with my own personal choices and opinions on this matter. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader