What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations'… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
What we need to recognize, less than 1 percent of the people organized around issues that are already supported by conservatives and liberals, and… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up. — Ralph Nader Copy Share
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. — Ralph Nader Copy Share
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. — Ralph Nader Copy Share
In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share
