225 Quotes by Ralph Nader

You just can’t get anything done. You can’t get hearings, you can’t get legislation, you can’t get responses by the regulatory agencies – you can’t get anything done. I’m a realist. I don’t work harder and harder to get less and less.

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

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates – except for Dean and Kucinich – are campaigning.

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn’t produce fruit the first season.

We’ve got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

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 ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.

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?

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.