Quotes from Ralph Nader

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

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

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

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.

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

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.'

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

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.

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.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

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

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

Khalil Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader's attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page.

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