Ralph Nader Quotations

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.