Quote

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

Ralph Nader

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
Activist
Environmentalist
Historian
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Novelist
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Litchfield County
Connecticut
School
Bridges
Would
Schools
Repaired
Think
Library
Crumbling
Thinking
Works
Libraries
Like
Percent
Highways
People
Probably
Inadequate
Public
Ninety
Comes
Services

More quotes by Ralph Nader

Image
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
Ralph Nader
Image
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
Image
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader
Image
She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.
Ralph Nader
Image
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
Image
That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.
Ralph Nader
Image
There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.
Ralph Nader
Image
In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls?
Ralph Nader
Image
We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.
Ralph Nader
Image
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
Image
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
Ralph Nader
Image
We must strive to become good ancestors.
Ralph Nader
Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
Ralph Nader
Image
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.
Ralph Nader
Image
The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.
Ralph Nader
Image
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.'
Ralph Nader
Image
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.
Ralph Nader
Image
The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.
Ralph Nader
Image
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
Ralph Nader
Image
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.
Ralph Nader