Ralph Nader

“If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”

“The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.”

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”

“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”

“Power has to be insecure to be responsive.”

“Information is the currency of democracy.”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

“The consumer is the boss.”

“To be a patriot, you must love your country more than you love your government.”

“The corporate lobby in Washington is fundamentally a form of intimidation.”

“Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”

“Pollution is a form of violence.”

“You've got to keep the pressure on, even if you lose. The essence of the citizens' movement is to keep the pressure on.”

“If there is one thing that is not democratic, it is to run a country in the interest of the billionaires.”

“In a democracy, the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is this: that as the owner of the government, he must watch the government.”