Quotes from Ralph Nader

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

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

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.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

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.'

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

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.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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