Famous Ralph Nader Quotations

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"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
by Ralph Nader
"I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy,"
by Ralph Nader
"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."
by Ralph Nader
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
by Ralph Nader
"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."
by Dave Barry
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
by Ralph Nader
"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
by Ralph Nader
"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."
by Ralph Nader
"Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding."
by Ralph Nader
"The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns."
by Ralph Nader
"Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway."
by Judith Viorst
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
by Ralph Nader
"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."
by Ralph Nader
"Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked."
by Ralph Nader
"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."
by Ralph Nader


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