Ralph Nader Quotes

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You’ve got to show up.

In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It’s obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties – to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

I don’t like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people’s lives.

The corporations don’t like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

If you don’t turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

There’s no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it’s the great graveyard, the way it’s been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama’s one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P