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
money delaware willing
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
country looks nostalgia
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
want voters winner
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
inspirational republican democrat
Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans
dark fda age
The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.
cost execution doe
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.
law government accountability
The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
way campaigns vulnerable
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.
strong ghetto play
There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don't know. I haven't heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What's keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards.
law people answers
When people ask, 'Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?' My answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.
insecure
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
party interest captives
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
people watches growing
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
selling-more safety people
We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.