Ralph Nader Quotes
-
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
→ -
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.
→ -
The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.
→ -
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.
→ -
The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel.
→ -
Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.
→ -
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
→ -
[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.
→ -
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.
→ -
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.
→ -
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
→ -
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
→ -
Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
→ -
We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.
→ -
Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.
→ -
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.
→ -
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
→ -
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.
→ -
[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.
→ -
This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
→ -
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
→ -
I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.
→ -
We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.
→ -
Secrecy destroys accountability.
→ -
Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.
→ -
There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.
→ -
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
→ -
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
→ -
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
→ -
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.
→
Related Authors
-
Cynthia McKinney Former United States Representative -
Barack Obama 44th U.S. President -
Dick Cheney Former Vice President of the United States -
Jill Stein Physician -
Ross Perot Businessman -
Hillary Clinton Former United States Secretary of State -
John F. Kerry United States Secretary of State -
Bernie Sanders United States Senator -
Ron Paul Former U.S. Representative -
Bob Dole American Politician -
Bill Maher Comedian -
-
Noam Chomsky Linguist -
George W. Bush 43rd U.S. President -
Pat Buchanan Former Assistant to the President for Communications -
Jesse Ventura Politician -
Chris Hedges Author -
Al Gore Former Vice President of the United States -
Gary Johnson Former Governor of New Mexico