Ralph Nader Quotes

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• 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.

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  Party, Doors, Differences

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• The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

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  Power, Government, People

  "Ralph Nader on the Candidates, Corporate Power and His Own Plans for 2008". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 9, 2007.

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• If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

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  Two, Evil, Stills

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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

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  Fun, Green World, Oil

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

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  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

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  Environmental, Stewardship, Strive

  "The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

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  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

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• If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

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  Country, Air, Sea

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• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

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  Inspiration, Justice, Needs

  Anthony Quainton, Ralph Nader (2000). “Global Challenges in the 21st Century”

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• Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

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  Socialism, Capitalism

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• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

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  Democracy, Denial, Information

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• 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.

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  Loss, Government, Able

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• The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

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  Party, Two, Political

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

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• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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  Success, Teacher, Retirement

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

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  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.

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  Party, Believe, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.

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  Law, People, Answers

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- Public Citizen Number One / For 30 years, Ralph Nader has been the conscience of corporate America and a thorn in its side. Now, as presidential candidate of the Green Party, he hopes to take his message farther and wider". Interview with Debra J. Saunders, www.sfgate.com. October 13, 1996.

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• There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

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  People, World, Fruit

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• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

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  Party, Government, Order

  Ralph Nader (2007). “Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender”, p.332, Macmillan

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• The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Names, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

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  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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