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. Ralph Nader More Quotes by Ralph Nader More Quotes From Ralph Nader We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice. Ralph Nader practice may 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. Ralph Nader selling-more safety people 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. Ralph Nader law answers people 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. Ralph Nader ghetto strong white If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. Ralph Nader nuclear-reactors war years 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. Ralph Nader regulation gay country Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war? Ralph Nader marijuana government war Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. Ralph Nader terrible age way You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years. Ralph Nader party believe years You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less. Ralph Nader agency hard-work done The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out. Ralph Nader ncaa presidential finals Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans. Ralph Nader putin republican fighting Hillary Clinton's never seen a weapons system or a war she hasn't liked. Ralph Nader clinton weapons war Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget. Ralph Nader military want common Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier. Ralph Nader running men country The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services. Ralph Nader crush rights country There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people. Ralph Nader voice america people That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it. Ralph Nader graveyard block democracy When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War. Ralph Nader men war school One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know. Ralph Nader college bird people
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