Ralph Nader

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

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

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

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

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

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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

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.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

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

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

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

We must strive to become good ancestors.

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