Ralph Nader Quotes

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

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

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

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

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.

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.

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

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

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.

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Barack Obama is a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.

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.

The railroad men did not hesitate to dominate government where they could.

President Bush is a corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

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

There is a steady flow between corporate board rooms and government decision making centers.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

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