Democracy Quote by Ralph Nader Download Open image “We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.” — Ralph Nader ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Plutocracy
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock 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
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
