Ralph Nader Quotes

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

I want to go further, because it was investment banks, it was insurance companies, it was mortgage companies, all of which contributed.So let's not just be narrowly focused on one part of the problem. We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

I want a Supreme Court that doesn't always side with corporate interests.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

The great power in America is the corporations - we're a corporate country. We're run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.

The media is not about responding to the wishes of people. All you have to do in the United States is turn on the national news at six-thirty, and watch big pharma intervene between the news stories, trying to tell people what drugs they should buy. That's not a reflection of anything. That's an attempt to promote a particular kind of consumer logic that basically abuses people.