A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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

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

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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

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

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.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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 Quote

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Ralph Nader Quote

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

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
- Ralph Nader Quote

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
- Ralph Nader Quote

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
- Ralph Nader Quote