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
expression humanity moral
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...
people too-much behavior
I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
democracy turns ifs
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
country political politics
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
powerful responsibility opportunity
If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
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.
people world fruit
There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.
practice may
We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.
democracy plutocracy
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
wall incentives rewards
End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.
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.
country gay regulation
We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.
stifling consumers behalf
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.