Ralph Nader Quotes

"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."

"Bush and Gore talk incessantly about caring for children, but they're not following through with action."

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."

"MasterCard should lighten up, they are taking their name 'Master' too seriously, ... This is America."

"Power has to be insecure to be responsive."

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

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

"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."

"The dominant institution in this country is the giant corporation."

"send a message across the country."

"A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources are used in getting consumers to buy what the sellers want to sell, notwithstanding the availability of more efficient, safe, economical, durable, and effective alternatives, including that of buying nothing at all."

"Why are these two men afraid? They should overcome their fear of facing new ideas and alternative voices, and open the process for the American people,"

"We don't have a democracy. An election is supposed to involve choice. We don't have a choice."

"cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential."

"We can't simply stand by idly and watch democracy and our government be turned over to the commercial interests of the giant corporations who have forgotten where they came from, which is the U.S.A.."

"I think if Gore does Bush in on the first debate, Bush would be smart to open it up to four debates. Because if he can't handle Al Gore maybe he wants to let me do the job."

"[On CBS's] Face the Nation, ... instead of a debate between the drab and the dreary."

"I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary."