Ralph Nader Quotes - Page 7

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

You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

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

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

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

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.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

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

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

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

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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