Ralph Nader Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Doors, Differences

• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

  Ralph Nader

  Dad, Father, Party

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Political

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

• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Government, Order

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

• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Interest, Corporate

• That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Water

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Party, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.

  Ralph Nader

  Mistake, Party, Looks

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Home, Green

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.

  Ralph Nader

  Running, Party, Media

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.

  Ralph Nader

  Running, Party, Media

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Party, Media

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• 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

• I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Green, Littles

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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