Ralph Nader Quotes

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations ... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

The Department of State has become a concession hunting agency for the Standard Oil Company

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

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.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

Any railroad corporation has infinitely more influence in any department of government than all the human beings that live in the territory that the railroad traverses.

Unfortunately, public officials are largely controlled by the very corporations against which they should proceed.

The people are weary of detecting the voice of a corporation manager in every political utterance, in the legislature, the Governor's messages, in the expressed opinions of mayors of cities and the Senators sent by the State to Washington, and even in the decisions of judges on the bench.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

The time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the railroads;

Corporations write the legislation. They vote on the legislation. And they give advice on how to pass their bills.

The Supreme Court has equated money with free speech.

You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.

Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.

Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.