Ralph Nader Quotes About Safety

Quotes about: Safety

• 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.

  Ralph Nader

  Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "Making Government and Business Accountable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 16, 1991.

• Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

  Ralph Nader

  Betrayal, Responsibility, Safety

  "Flaming Fords" by Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2006.

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

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Justice, Safety

• We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

  Ralph Nader

  Selling More, People, Safety

• The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

  Ralph Nader

  Successful, Museums, Safety

  Source: www.pbs.org

• There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Safety, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.

  Ralph Nader

  War, School, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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