Ralph Nader Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Ralph Nader

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

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

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Denial, Information

• It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Essence, Choices, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Turns, Ifs

• We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Plutocracy

• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Essence, Democracy

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

• Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  Ralph Nader

  Political, Democracy, Erode

  "Nader rejects concerns he could help elect Bush". www.cnn.com. October 31, 2000.

• As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, People, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

  Ralph Nader

  Leaving, Democracy, Limits

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

  Ralph Nader

  Block, Democracy, Graveyard

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• 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.'

  Ralph Nader

  Democracy, Flags, Lines

• What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Government, People

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