Ralph Nader quotes - page 3

The hardest thing in life is to face reality when you grow up being educated by myths. (Ralph Nader)
[I]n this book... the rallies... are different... they build from day to day... and... it's led by people who are full-time... and they open offices in Washington. ...Three enlightened billionaires come to town and they say... "Hey, let's fund this"... and a brain trust. View quote
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Democracy requires work. ...The more they feel they've got the members Congress on the run, the more energized they become. View quote
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. View quote
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people. View quote
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. View quote
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. View quote
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It's Easier Than We Think. View quote
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America's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that never once uses the words "corporation," "company," or "political parties." View quote
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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. View quote
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. (Ralph Nader)
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. View quote
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Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses... in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them. View quote
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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.' View quote
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National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. View quote
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. View quote
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs. View quote
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The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man. View quote
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Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. View quote
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George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning. View quote
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She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision. (Ralph Nader)
This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended -- not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now. View quote
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Khalil Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader's attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page. View quote
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[F]amily functions have been outsourced to business... everything is for sale, and money is power... Our elections and our governments should be... commercial-free zones; our environment, air, and water should never fall under the control of corporations or private owners. Children should not be programmed by a huckstering economy... View quote
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America's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that never once uses the words "corporation," "company," or "political parties." Their use of language reflected their antipathy toward the domineering influence of empire and big business... If "We the People" are the sole subjects of the Constitution, why is it that we are ruled by large corporations and their largely indentured servants-the Republican and Democratic Parties... "We the People" have allowed these plutocratic forces to slowly siphon away our power. View quote
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