Ralph Nader Quotes

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

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

The only time the Democrats and the Republicans are together is when they are voting for their own pay raise.

There is a public perception that the Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

A liberal doesn’t sell out to the special interests.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

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

Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt. The motto of the Democratic Party is, "Anything to get in." The motto of the Republican Party is "Anything to stay in.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.