100+ Ralph Nader Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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

Topics: Power, Government, People, Economic Power, Clinicals

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

Topics: People, Sorrow, Half, Half A Century

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

Topics: Oil, Answers, Paper, Oil Spill

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

Topics: Cost, Execution, Doe

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

Topics: Country, Educational, Years

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

Topics: Struggle, Vacation, Justice

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

Topics: Office, Injustice, Clinton, Civilians

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Topics: Competition, Socialism, Figs

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

Topics: Waste, Dollars, Environment

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

Topics: Betrayal, Responsibility, Safety, Ford Motor

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Topics: Inspirational, Republican, Democrat

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

Topics: Numbers, America, Hands

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

Topics: Want, Voters, Winner

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.

Topics: Dark, Age, Abdication, Delegation

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

Topics: Rights, Names, Impact, Retailers

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

Topics: Country, Looks, Nostalgia

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

Topics: Communication, Mean, Mouths, Means Of Communication, Word Of Mouth

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

Topics: Dark, Fda, Age, Food Industry

Everything will be solar in 30 years.

Topics: Years, Energy, Environment

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.

Topics: Years, People, Democracy

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Topics: Las Vegas, Gambling, Presidential, Presidential Candidate, Gambling And Love

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Topics: Return, Chickens

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Topics: People, Support, Looks

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Topics: Names, Oil, Media, Cable Tv, John D Rockefeller

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

Topics: Party, Interest

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Topics: Insecure

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Topics: Business, Thinking, Meals

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.

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

Topics: Party, Government, Order, Vested Interests

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Topics: Order, Crowns, Founders

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

Topics: Political, Democracy, Erode, Undermining

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Topics: Sex, Dirty, Reality, Dirty Secrets, Victorian

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

Topics: Sugar, Dentist

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Topics: Life, Years, Bulls, Sacred Cows

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Topics: Country, Political, Politics

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Topics: Congress, Consumers

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Topics: Technology, Data, People, Stunned, Files

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Topics: Consumers, Behalf

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

Topics: America, Leader, Political

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

Topics: Adversity, Thinking, Luxury

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Topics: People, Watches, Growing

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

Topics: Commitment, Leisure, Enjoy

Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

Topics: Country, Government, Water, Drinking Water, Sewers

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

Topics: Socialism, Capitalism

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Topics: Hype, Government, People, President Reagan

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

Topics: Light, Anchors, Vision

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Topics: Injustice, Lawyer, Empty, Public Interest

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.

Topics: Rights, Essence, Environmental, Environmental Justice, Consumer Protection

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...

Topics: Expression, Humanity, Moral, Moral Courage

Secrecy destroys accountability.

Topics: Political, Accountability, Secrecy

The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

Topics: Financial, Wealth, Bottom, Exceed

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

Topics: Book, Research, Benefits, Enron, Public Policy

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

Topics: Democracy, Turns, Turn-on

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

Topics: War, Years, Civil War, Nuclear Reactors

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

Topics: Democracy, Denial, Information

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Topics: Age, Way, Terrible, Freshness

The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

Topics: Sports, Fun, Athlete

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Topics: Men, Individuality, Fellow Man

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Topics: Imagination, Balance, Culture

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

Topics: Administration, Corporations, Sympathetic, Transnational Corporations

The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

Topics: Rocks, Income, Cost, Social Security, Privatization

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Topics: Sanctions

Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.

Topics: Issues, Racism, Focus

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Topics: Two, Evil, Vote, Lesser Evil, Two Evils

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.

Topics: Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Topics: Organization, Today, Slavery, Serfs

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Powerful, Block, Branches, Progressive Society

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

Topics: Two, Evil, Stills, Lesser Evil, Two Evils

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Topics: Motivated, Empowered, Organized, Informed Citizenry

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.

Topics: Country, Air, Sea, Land And Sea

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.

source: - "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.

Topics: Law, People, Answers

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

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

Topics: Party, Two, Political, Trough

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.

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

Topics: Real, Vocabulary, Games, Socialization, Virtual Reality

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Wall, War, Party

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.

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

Topics: Government, Names, People

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, Believe, Two, Obstruction, Two Heads

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

source: - Ralph Nader (2013). “Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns”, Seven Stories Press

Topics: Erosion, Aging, Ideals

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

Topics: People, World, Fruit

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.

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

Topics: Party, Winning, Issues, Third Parties, Rigged

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

Topics: Democracy, Plutocracy

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

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

Topics: Progress, Impossible, Turns

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

Topics: Turns, Ifs, Turn-on

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.'

Topics: Democracy, Flags, Lines

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

Topics: Cities, People, Doe

We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Country, Thinking, People

In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Islands, America, People, Cayman Islands, Big Corporations

I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.

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

Topics: Thinking, Interesting, Political, Hilary Clinton

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.

Topics: Honest, Pollution, Should

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Records, Empires

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

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

Topics: Ncaa, Presidential, Finals

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Stars, Military, Fighting, Dwight, Military Industrial Complex

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Topics: Worry, Despair, Trying

For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Country, War, Blow, Learning New, Lone Wolf

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

Topics: Government, Abuse, Woven, Government Officials

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

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

Topics: Two, People, Evil, Lesser Of Two Evils

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

Topics: Jobs, Leader, Followers

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Texas, Littles, Towns

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

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

Topics: Self, Community, Consciousness, Contributors

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Topics: Ignorant, President, Warren Harding, Harding

If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

Topics: War, Cycling, Oil

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.

Topics: Selling More, People, Safety

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Topics: Government, Law, Accountability

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Topics: People, Wealth, Gates, Net Worth

One time when I was nine or ten years old, I came home from school...and my dad said to me, 'Well, Ralph, what did you learn in school today? Did you learn how to believe or did you learn how to think?' So, I'm saying to myself, 'What's the difference between the two?'.

source: - Source: www.achievement.org

Topics: Dad, Believe, Home

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: People, Climate, Action, Gridlock

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Country, Party, Two, Hijacking, Turnaround

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

source: - "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2008.

Topics: Washington Dc, Territory, Corporate

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.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Block, Democracy, Graveyard

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Thinking, Foreign Policy, Ready

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

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

Topics: Jobs, Israel, Iraq, Living Wage

Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Doctors, People, Choices, Qualifying

What we need to recognize, less than 1 percent of the people organized around issues that are already supported by conservatives and liberals, and there are a lot of them that aren't publicized, back home, can overcome corporate forces in Washington.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Home, Issues, People

Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Running, People, President, Jill Stein

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Justice, Support, Police, Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. P

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Military, Support, President, Military Budget, Expenditures

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

Topics: Practice, May

Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Issues, Asia, Republican, Gridlock

Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: War, Weapons, Clinton

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

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

Topics: Citizens, Activist

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

Topics: Country, Justice, Safety, Social Security

It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Fighting, Jail, Campaigns, Prosecutor, Lawmakers

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

source: - Ralph Nader (2007). “Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender”, p.319, Macmillan

Topics: Defense, Weak

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Running, Party, Media, Green Party

Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: People, Dollars, Campaigns

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

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Leaving, Democracy, Limits, Consultants, Pundits

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

Topics: Lying, Needs, Nuclear, Chernobyl, Nuclear Plants

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.

source: - Source: www.achievement.org

Topics: War, School, Men

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, Green, Littles, Green Party

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Thinking, Links, Should, Domestic Policy

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Military, Want, Common, Military Budget

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Cities, People, Showing Up, City Council, Courtroom

The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Crush, Country, Rights, Anti Terrorism

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Topics: Corporations, Mccain

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

Topics: Jobs, Challenges, Size

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Fighting, Republican, Putin

Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Arbitration, Tools, Want

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Garden, Two, Squares, Madison Square Garden

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

Topics: Children, Book, People, Mistreated

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

source: - Source: www.achievement.org

Topics: Citizenship, Gates

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.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Mistake, Party, Looks, Insurgency

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

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

Topics: Stories, Today, Tomorrow, Blasphemy

The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Winning, Law, People, Arbitration, Compulsory

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

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Essence, Choices, Democracy, Competitiveness

In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: I Like You, Issues, Labor Day

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

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

Topics: Injustice, Family Values, Household

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Voice, People, Giving

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Country, Party, Media, Redirection

In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Two, People, Majority

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: America, Destroying, Foreign Policy

Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.

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

Topics: Running, Country, Men, Predatory

What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Country, Years, Interesting, Election Years

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, People, Democracy, Third Parties

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Thinking, Oil, Lobbyists, Nuclear Power

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

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

Topics: Sometimes, Injury, Vehicle

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

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

Topics: People, Too Much, Behavior

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

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: People, Safety, Policy, Health And Safety

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Thinking, Government, Email

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

Topics: Campaigns, Way, Vulnerable, Candidates

There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.

source: - "Obama using 'white guilt,' Nader says" by Alexander Mooney, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2008.

Topics: Strong, Ghetto, White, Payday, Predatory

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

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

Topics: Thinking, Personality, Negative

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

Topics: War, Marijuana, Government, Overdose, Illegal Drugs

We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

Topics: Country, Gay, Regulation

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.

Topics: Thinking, Government, People

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, Two, Water, Green Party

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, Home, Green, Invading, Green Party

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: School, Thinking, Bridges

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.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Party, Believe, Years, Jill Stein

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: People, Dollars, Minimum Wage, Candidacy

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Debt, Want, Conservative, Jill Stein

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Want, Energy, Climate, Jill Stein, Extraction

[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.

source: - Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

Topics: Media, May, Mass, Jill Stein

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

Topics: Wall, Incentives, Rewards, Speculators

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Media, Corporations, Damage

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Justice, Criminals, Failing, Criminal Justice, Backup

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.

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

Topics: Kids, Thinking, People, Family Tradition

One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.

Topics: College, People, Bird

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

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

Topics: People, Personality, Different

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.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Successful, Museums, Safety

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.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Running, Party, Media, Presidential Debate

There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Voice, America, People

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.

source: - Source: www.democracynow.org

Topics: Home, People, Expansion, Pressured

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