Ralph Nader

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

— Ralph Nader

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

— Ralph Nader

“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”

— Ralph Nader

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

— Ralph Nader

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

— Ralph Nader

I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being…

— Ralph Nader

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as…

— Ralph Nader

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go…

— Ralph Nader

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting…

— Ralph Nader

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…

— Ralph Nader

We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down,…

— Ralph Nader

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do,…

— Ralph Nader

We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds…

— Ralph Nader

The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the…

— Ralph Nader

Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into…

— Ralph Nader

We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of…

— Ralph Nader

For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more…

— Ralph Nader

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against…

— Ralph Nader

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our…

— Ralph Nader

One time when I was nine or ten years old, I came home from school...and my dad said to me, 'Well, Ralph,…

— Ralph Nader

“When people break through the abstractions and labels they often find themselves on the same side with their opposites, especially once the…

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

— Ralph Nader

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

— Ralph Nader

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

— Ralph Nader

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

— Ralph Nader