3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader 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.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader 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.’
