Ralph Nader Quotes (107 Quotes)


    One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and independent candidates to challenge the two-party duopoly system, ... I see it as a civil liberties issue of free speech.

    if Democrats are disappointed with the returns, they need to take a long, close look at their party and the empty campaign waged by Al Gore.

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

    cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.

    It is extremism when corporations corrupt our government, buy and rent our politicians, block our access to the courts, dominate our executive branch agencies, appropriate middle class tax dollars in the form of corporate welfare, subsidies, handouts, bailouts. That's extremism. It's not extremism to have a Green political party movement that wants to put an end to this.


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

    Microsoft doesn't respect the antitrust laws, and it has amply demonstrated that it can't be trusted. The company has shown its contempt for any court-imposed changes in its conduct. If the government ends the antitrust case by seeking changes in its conduct, but not in its structure, Microsoft can be expected to creatively evade the thrust of such agreements.

    I think if Gore does Bush in on the first debate, Bush would be smart to open it up to four debates. Because if he can't handle Al Gore maybe he wants to let me do the job.

    These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers.

    Bush is the worst of the worst on this. You couldn't have anybody worse. He brags about it, he boasts about it, it's one of his top 10 issues.

    Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

    After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I've decided to run as an independent candidate for president, ... Meet the Press.

    Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, ... it won't matter who wins.

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

    MasterCard should lighten up, they are taking their name 'Master' too seriously, ... This is America.

    The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

    If Al Gore does not change the spectrum of his agenda and broaden it out, he is going to lose California,

    The dominant institution in this country is the giant corporation.

    Often you used the name of your home town as a metaphor for your 1992 presidential campaign, 'The man from Hope. Well, I am sure that many Katrina-displaced families now homeless, or huddling with friends or relatives or in shacks wish that you would give them some hope.

    This is a medical malpractice crisis. Over 80,000 Americans, 220 every day, die from medical negligence. Hundreds of thousands are injured.

    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.

    When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

    It's quite pioneering, having all those actors play Lennon. That's hard to pull off.


    A 'no' vote will potentially save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

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

    But you've heard him speak about Saddam. For every question we put to the president about domestic needs he has one answer attack Iraq, attack Iraq, attack Iraq. Psychologists would call this the obsessive-compulsive syndrome.

    Perish the phrase 'free trade,' ... There's no such thing as free trade with dictatorial regimes who keep costs down by brute force and lure U.S. companies to those countries.

    It's time for the American people to realize the Muslim Americans are only the latest religious and ethnic group to feel the brunt of political hysteria and abuse,

    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.

    Mr. James, you are in a unique position to stand up for the people who make the products you endorse and to make the world a better place in the process. You can improve their working conditions in the contracted factories and pressure the entire sports shoe and apparel industry to change,

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

    How did we ever end up with a democracy where challengers to the entrenched corrupt political system in our country cannot get to tens of millions of voters without going through a gate whose key is controlled by the two major parties who want to exclude reforms

    The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

    He should be held accountable by voters for eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.

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

    It's just breaking us up. The heart that's been beating since 1906 couldn't make it until (Feb. 7). She put a lot of forces into motion directly and through her children that I think created a lot of improvement in our country.

    There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by 13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured 100 million into it. The taxpayers should not have to fund these political conventions.

    The keys to the gate to those tens of millions of Americans are held by the very two parties that small parties are trying to challenge. Never again should we allow this to happen. The choice for the American people should not be between the bad Democrats and worse Republicans.

    No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

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

    We get one Republican vote for every two Democratic votes, some polls have told us.

    Most of them (Democrats and Republicans) are politicians with fingers to the wind, ... And if I win, we'll be giving them a lot of wind.

    We now have a two-party system that is overwhelmed with its own arrogance and complacency, ... It offers little more than Band-Aids for some of the nation's problems and does not project a sense of confidence among the American people.

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

    Al Gore thinks he is entitled to your votes. Al Gore thinks that we're supposed to be helping him get elected, ... I've got news for Al Gore -- if you can't beat the bumbling Texas governor with that record, you ought to go back to Tennessee.

    passion to limit the liability of predatory corporations toward their injured or defrauded victims.

    There is, as well, a consumer issue at stake here. Fans have purchased tickets for Eagles' games, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, on the assumption that they will see one of the game's most exciting receivers, so long as he is healthy enough to play. The Eagles' action denies them this opportunity.

    I used to think of California as in the vanguard. Now its school spending is among the bottom 10. We need to increase school funding by more than the trivial amounts being talked about.


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