People Quotes by Ralph Nader

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

— Ralph Nader

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

— 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

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

— 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

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

— Ralph Nader

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic…

— Ralph Nader

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

— Ralph Nader

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics…

— Ralph Nader

What we need to recognize, less than 1 percent of the people organized around issues that are already supported by conservatives and…

— Ralph Nader

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the…

— 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

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government…

— Ralph Nader

In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands;…

— Ralph Nader

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

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq,…

— Ralph Nader

What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more…

— Ralph Nader

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to…

— Ralph Nader

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,…

— Ralph Nader

One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were.…

— Ralph Nader

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

— Ralph Nader

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

— Ralph Nader

There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

— Ralph Nader

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some…

— Ralph Nader

Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you…

— Ralph Nader

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill…

— Ralph Nader

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

— Ralph Nader

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

— Ralph Nader

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

— Ralph Nader

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

— Ralph Nader

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

— 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

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in…

— 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…

— Ralph Nader

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

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they…

— Ralph Nader

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how…

— Ralph Nader

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote,…

— Ralph Nader

When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not…

— Ralph Nader