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

Ralph Nader Quotes

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.

— Ralph Nader

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.

— Ralph Nader

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

— Ralph Nader

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect – they want to go with the winners.

— Ralph Nader

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

— Ralph Nader

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans.

— Ralph Nader

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

— Ralph Nader

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.

— Ralph Nader

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

— Ralph Nader

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

— Ralph Nader

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

— Ralph Nader

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

— Ralph Nader

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

— Ralph Nader

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

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

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

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 World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.

— Ralph Nader

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
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