The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. Ralph Nader More Quotes by Ralph Nader More Quotes From Ralph Nader Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society. Ralph Nader branches block powerful [Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media. Ralph Nader mass media may I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out. Ralph Nader green party littles 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. Ralph Nader arbitration tools want The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it. Ralph Nader corporations damage media I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us. Ralph Nader foreign-policy ready thinking The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails. Ralph Nader criminals failing justice 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. Ralph Nader safety successful museums Families are incubators for citizen activists. Ralph Nader activist citizens As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up. Ralph Nader democracy party people I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing. Ralph Nader personality negative thinking The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings. Ralph Nader different personality people I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives. Ralph Nader too-much behavior people Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household. Ralph Nader household family-values injustice It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. Ralph Nader democracy choices essence What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates. Ralph Nader media party country In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls? Ralph Nader majority two people You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices. Ralph Nader voice giving people In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues. Ralph Nader issues labor-day i-like-you Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher. Ralph Nader doctors choices people
