Ralph Nader
People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.Collection: Cities
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.Collection: Waste
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.Collection: Want
I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.Collection: Thinking
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.Collection: Sports
The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.Collection: Jobs
Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.Collection: Corporations
Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.Collection: Fighting
Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.Collection: Arbitration
If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.Collection: Garden
We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.Collection: Country
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.Collection: Children
I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.Collection: Citizenship
Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.Collection: Mistake
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.Collection: Competition
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.Collection: Stories
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.Collection: Imagination
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.Collection: Men
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.Collection: People
Everything will be solar in 30 years.Collection: Years
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporationsCollection: Corporations
Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons. PCollection: Military
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.Collection: Justice
Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.Collection: Running
Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked.Collection: War
Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.Collection: Issues
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.Collection: Money
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.Collection: Country
Families are incubators for citizen activists.Collection: Citizens
Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.Collection: Political
Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Texas
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.Collection: Country
A wasteful defense is a weak defense.Collection: Defense
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.Collection: Fighting
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.Collection: Oil
Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).Collection: People
Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.Collection: Running
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.Collection: Leaving
Now unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.Collection: People
Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.Collection: Lying
The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.Collection: Justice
What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Successful
That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Country
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.Collection: School
There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.Collection: People
[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.Collection: Media