Ralph Nader
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
-Ralph Nader
age
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
-Ralph Nader
best
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
-Ralph Nader
business
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
-Ralph Nader
business
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
-Ralph Nader
car
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
dad
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
future
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
government
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
government
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
health
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
-Ralph Nader
history
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-Ralph Nader
leadership
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-Ralph Nader
leadership
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
money
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
-Ralph Nader
politics
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
politics
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
power
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
-Ralph Nader
power
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
-Ralph Nader
society
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
-Ralph Nader
teacher
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
-Ralph Nader
technology
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
trust
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