Leadership is key and MADD had that at the local, state and national level.

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What is needed is a grass-roots movement similar to MADD that encompasses all aspects of society.

CNN: Look to MADD in changing our gun culture

Before MADD, there was little education in the schools about alcohol or impaired driving.

CNN: Look to MADD in changing our gun culture

Early on, it became clear that I must seek broad and strategic alliances for MADD to be successful.

CNN: Look to MADD in changing our gun culture

MADD's emotion, coupled with the prospect of states losing their road money, mean that a lower drinking age remains as dim a prospect as a cold Bud in Utah.

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From 1980 to 1983, when MADD was very active, some of the biggest reductions in motor vehicle deaths occurred in large part because of the media attention we were able to generate.

CNN: Look to MADD in changing our gun culture

It was only by building broad coalitions of such highly influential constituents that MADD, during my tenure, was able to initiate a sweeping change in public attitudes and laws against drunk driving.

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