225 Quotes by 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.

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.

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?

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it’s hard to measure it.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.

The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

The only true aging is the erosion of one’s ideals.

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.

The corporations don’t like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.