Quotes from Ralph Nader

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

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

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

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

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

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

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

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

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

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

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.