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
country safety justice
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.
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.
betrayal responsibility safety
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
people safety policy
There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.
successful museums safety
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.
draft
These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers,
green internal involved party settle
I've always been independent, it's a thing with me, ... I don't want to get involved in these internal Green Party disputes, that's for them to settle ... I want to extravert the party's agenda.
free respect
dishonors this country's traditional respect for free speech.
case changes company contempt creatively ends expected government microsoft respect seeking shown thrust
Microsoft doesn't respect the antitrust laws, and it has amply demonstrated that it can't be trusted. The company has shown its contempt for any court-imposed changes in its conduct. If the government ends the antitrust case by seeking changes in its conduct, but not in its structure, Microsoft can be expected to creatively evade the thrust of such agreements.
country democrats leverage margin victory
You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It's not a spoiler role, it's a leverage role.
agenda al broaden change gore lose spectrum
If Al Gore does not change the spectrum of his agenda and broaden it out, he is going to lose California,
changes instead media people personal politics positive reforms sterile tactics
People want positive politics demonstrating changes and reforms instead of the politics of personality and personal acrimony enveloped in sterile media forays about the tactics of the day.
networks political realize stripped television work
should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.
asleep debate drab fall front people percent tv watching
Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.