Ralph Nader Quotes

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Everything will be solar in 30 years.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

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

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

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

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.

There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

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

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.

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

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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