In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for… — 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
In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
