Ralph Nader

Quote: There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: 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]

Quote: When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Your best teacher is your last mistake. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: 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.' [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: 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]

Quote: The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: Power has to be insecure to be responsive. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. [Ralph Nader]

Quote: I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. [Ralph Nader]

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