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
democracy turns ifs
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
worry despair trying
Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
democracy plutocracy
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
turns ifs turn-on
If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.
arbitration tools want
Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.
stifling consumers behalf
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
motivated empowered organized
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
selling-more safety people
We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.
rocks income cost
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.
corporations administration sympathetic
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
sanctions
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked
territory washington-dc corporate
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
erosion aging ideals
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
our-generation abolition-of-slavery rights
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.