Ralph Nader Quotes

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• I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.
• Everything will be solar in 30 years.
• Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see…
• We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people…
• To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than…
• If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and…
• The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.
• If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things…
• As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
• Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...
• If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
• Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
• Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
• For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
• If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.
• Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go…
• The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the…
• Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
• This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

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