Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1934
CityWinsted, CT
CountryUnited States of America
thinking personality way
I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
defense weak
A wasteful defense is a weak defense.
two evil stills
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.
inspiration justice needs
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
people personality world
The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.
party doors differences
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.
loss government able
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
inspirational motivational success
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
texas littles towns
It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.
party winning young-generation
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.
inspirational motivational inspiring
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
power government people
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.
fighting jail campaigns
It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.
fun green-world oil
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.