Quotes from Ralph Nader


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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.


There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.


Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.


Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.


If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.


I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.


It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.


The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.


The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.


People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.


Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.


Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.


Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.


Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.


The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.


Power has to be insecure to be responsive.


The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.


The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.


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.'