Ralph Nader Quotes

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America.

I felt it from within. We have tremendous discontent in the country. We have tremendous problems in the country. And I felt it early on or I wouldn't have done this. But I see tremendous discontent.

It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single story.

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.

America will suffer under Trump.

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.

The direction of this country is going into the wrong direction.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.

Mr. Trump set an example of how an individual can damage a country. There are agitations all around, and the whole of U.S. is under turmoil.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

There are a lot of people - and I'm not talking about elected Democrats - there are a lot of your fellow citizens - you don't know them, you don't know where they are - but there's many more of them than you know and realize, and they revel in all of this. They love the chaos. They love the majority being disturbed, bothered, shaken up by it.

Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.

Our country is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

America is a mess. We don't even know what to look for anymore, folks. Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.