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
I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy. — 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
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal -… — 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
