Ralph Nader Quotes

• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’

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• If God hadn’t meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn’t have invented dentists.

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

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• The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.

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• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

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• The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

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• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

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• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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• When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

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• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

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• This (George W. Bush’s) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

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• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

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• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.

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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

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• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

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• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

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• Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

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Ralph Nader (36)

Birth:	27th February, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Lecturer, Political Consultant

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Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government.

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