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

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
― Ralph Nader

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
― Ralph Nader

“Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them. ”
― Ralph Nader

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

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
― Ralph Nader

“Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole”
― Ralph Nader

“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.”
― Ralph Nader

“The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.”
― Ralph Nader

“How often do police accidentally shoot and kill bankers who are committing financial crimes, stealing homes, and plunging the nation into economic instability and recession?”
― Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think

“[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't stick to trade…they colonize environmental labor, and consumer issues of grave concern (in terms of health safety, and livelihoods too) to many, many hundreds of millions of people - and they do that by subordinating consumer, environmental, and labor issues to the imperatives and the supremacy of international commerce.

That is exactly the reverse of how democratic societies have progressed, because over the decades they've progressed by subordinating the profiteering priorities of companies to, say, higher environmental health standards; abolition of child labor; the right of workers to have fair worker standards…and it's this subordination of these three major categories that affect people's lives, labor, environment, the consumer, to the supremacy and domination of trade; where instead of trade getting on its knees and showing that it doesn't harm consumers - it doesn't deprive the important pharmaceuticals because of drug company monopolies, it doesn't damage the air and water and soil and food (environmentally), and it doesn't lacerate the rights of workers - no, it's just the opposite: it's workers and consumers and environments that have to kneel before this giant pedestal of commercial trade and prove that they are not, in a whole variety of ways, impeding international commerce…so this is the road to dictatorial devolution of democratic societies: because these trade agreements have the force of law, they've got enforcement teeth, and they bypass national courts, national regulatory agencies, in ways that really reflect a massive, silent, mega-corporate coup d'etat…that was pulled off in the mid-1990's.”
― Ralph Nader

“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.”
― Ralph Nader

“Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...”
― Ralph Nader, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!

“A society with more justice needs less charity.”
― Ralph Nader

“As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.”
― Ralph Nader

“To know and no to do is not to know.”
― Nader, Ralph, The 17 Traditions

“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”
― Ralph Nader, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!

“If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don’t the tenants pay rent?”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“It is a disturbing sign of the times when the two most transformative science technologies affecting the globe—biotechnology and nanotechnology—are governed by no external ethical or legal frameworks to protect public safety and other public interests, despite the fact that both industries have benefited from heavy taxpayer-funded government support.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“The more you talk, the less you'll have to say.
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.”
― Nader, Ralph, The 17 Traditions

“Social entrepreneurs are among the most dynamic engines of the cooperative movement. Where corporate moguls work for personal enrichment, these civic-minded business leaders work for the cooperative equivalent, which is a desire to generate community self-reliance, abolish poverty, and enhance community economic well-being by improving housing, food, transportation, energy, health, finance, and a host of other products and services. Their motivations are not selfishly financial; they are far deeper, rooted in both the human spirit and the pervasive sense of community that human beings have striven to express throughout history. As the economist Jean Monnet once said, “Without community, there is crisis.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“LOST: 60 SECONDS
DON'T BOTHER LOOKING FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE GONE FOREVER”
― Nader, Ralph, The 17 Traditions

“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “newâ€� and “betterâ€� synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing on less knowledge today than our parents did through the oral tradition alone. We’re drowning in photographs and videos, capturing every mundane moment of our birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Yet these can be no more than pleasant distraction, only scratching the surface of our real relationships.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Traditions

“Our public lands contain a wealth of natural resources—trees, oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, and many other minerals, onshore and off. We own these lands. Yet under current law the corporations control their extraction and pay very little to Uncle Sam for what revenues and profits they reap. Sometimes, in fact, they pay just about nothing.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value”
― Ralph Nader

“The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.”
― Ralph Nader

“Increasingly, progressive voices in the media are shining a spotlight on the need for new businesses that serve both entrepreneurs and local communities. Yes! Magazine is a leading chronicler of independence from the global economy, with features such as â€�31 Ways to Jump Start the Local Economy,â€� “Wendell Berry’s 17 Rules for a Sustainable Economy,â€� “A Resilient Community,â€� “Small Banks, Radical Vision,â€� and other numerous stories on how consumers and householders can become producers of energy and food. Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, in his bestseller The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier, offered both a survey of our nation’s growing economic inequalities and an eloquent argument that such inequalities will lead to increased anxiety, fear, isolation, health failures, and chronic insecurity.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future

“A great problem of contemporary life is how to control the power of economic interests which ignore the harmful effects of their applied science and technology.”
― Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed

“If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.”
― Ralph Nader