Quotes from Ralph Nader

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

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

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

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

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

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

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.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

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.

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

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

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

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.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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

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

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

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

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