Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1934
CityWinsted, CT
CountryUnited States of America
loss government able
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 deselect them.
injustice family-values household
Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
party doors differences
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.
party winning young-generation
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.
fighting jail campaigns
It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.
financial wealth bottom
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.
two evil stills
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.
people personality world
The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.
party two political
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
ignorant president warren-harding
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
success teacher retirement
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
democracy flags lines
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
imagination balance culture
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
information leafs figs
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.