Congress Quotes by Ralph Nader

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

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies…

— Ralph Nader

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

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

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

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are…

— Ralph Nader

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

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

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

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

— Ralph Nader

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

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

— Ralph Nader