Quote

We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.

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
Doesn
Heads
Two
Labels
Live
Closer
Different
Corporate
Believe
Tyranny
Obstructions
Competition
Obstruction
Party
Enforce
Getting
Penalties

More quotes by Ralph Nader

Image
The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader
Image
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader
Image
If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
Ralph Nader
Image
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader
Image
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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
We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.
Ralph Nader
Image
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
Ralph Nader
Image
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
Image
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
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
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
Ralph Nader
Image
Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.
Ralph Nader
Image
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
Ralph Nader
Image
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
Ralph Nader
Image
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.
Ralph Nader
Image
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
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
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
Ralph Nader
Image
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
Ralph Nader