The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted… — 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 Image
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
