The Best Ralph Nader quotes

Washington DC is corporate–occupied territory. — Ralph Nader

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. — Ralph Nader

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. — Ralph Nader

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. — Ralph Nader

There’s no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people. — Ralph Nader

A society with more justice needs less charity. — Ralph Nader

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. — Ralph Nader

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society. — Ralph Nader

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. — Ralph Nader

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America. — Ralph Nader

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy. — Ralph Nader

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

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

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations. — Ralph Nader

This (George W. Bush’s) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations — Ralph Nader

I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations. — Ralph Nader

Arbitration is private. It doesn’t have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It’s usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person. — Ralph Nader

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

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

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. — Ralph Nader

The only difference between al gore and george w. bush is The velocity with which Their knees hit The floor when corporations knock. — Ralph Nader

The corporations don’t like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret. — Ralph Nader

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy. — Ralph Nader

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. — Ralph Nader

Information is the currency of democracy. It’s denial must always be suspect. — Ralph Nader

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. — Ralph Nader

Once you don’t vote your ideals … that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader

It’s all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they’re in a bubble leaving democracy off–limits. — Ralph Nader

That’s why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it. — Ralph Nader

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment. — Ralph Nader

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they’re open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, ‘Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.’ — Ralph Nader

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? — Ralph Nader

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible. — Ralph Nader

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. — Ralph Nader

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate–orientated anti–consumer Congresses in our history. — Ralph Nader

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That’s the record of history. — Ralph Nader

As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history. — Ralph Nader

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history. — Ralph Nader

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

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough. — Ralph Nader

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. — Ralph Nader

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

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. — Ralph Nader

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. — Ralph Nader

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it’s a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street. — Ralph Nader

I suppose the Green Party doesn’t care for the anti–civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours. — Ralph Nader

Let’s run through the various ways they’re trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media. — Ralph Nader