225 Quotes by Ralph Nader

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

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

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

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.'

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel.

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.

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