Ralph Nader Quotes
"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Corporate, Washington)
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Leadership, Followers)
"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Corporate, Liberal, Party)
"The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Manufacturing)
"The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Corporations, Difference, Republican)
"Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked."
- Ralph Nader
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Citizenship, Democracy)
"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Corporations)
"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Country, Problems)
"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Politics, Will)
"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Acting, Neighbors, Strangers)
"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Government, People, Now, President, Promise)
"Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Business, Sex, England, Reality, Today)
"Your best teacher is your last mistake."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Mistake)
"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Business, Being, Corporations, Separation)
"Power has to be insecure to be responsive."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Power)
"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Society, Charity, Justice, Needs)
"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Health, People, Addiction, Country, Crime)
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Life, Public, Years)
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Leadership, Followers)
"John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Car, Media, Name, Oil)
"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: People, Support)
"Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Democracy, Ideals, Vote)
"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Gambling, Visit)
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Power, Leader, Dream, Vision, Conviction, Energy)
"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Order)
"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: People, Americans, Company)
"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Age, Time)