Ralph Nader: Democrat

Ralph Nader is American consumer rights activist and corporate critic. Explore interesting quotes on democrat.
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“…the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.”

Ralph Nader

Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)

“…the Democrats know that no matter how many GATTs, NAFTAs, empty OSHAs, and other betrayals…they heap on those labor leaders, they can be had because, once again, the Republicans are deemed worse.”

Ralph Nader

Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000), Crashing the Party (2002)

Betrayal

“Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence.”

Ralph Nader

Crashing the Party (2002)

Silence , Suffering , Season

“My hope is that... I will open Democrats' and other progressives' eyes to the many values shared by the Left and Right... like the desire to end corporate welfare and convert to a renewable energy (solar) economy. ...the way to defeat Trump... is to embrace (not marginalize) issues such as raising the minimum wage. ...It is a question of do or just further fade away.”

Ralph Nader

To the Ramparts (2018)

Way , Hope , Question

“[W]e have all these myths... about a Democratic society... [W]e have been disintegrating our Democratic institutions for over 40 years.”

Ralph Nader

"American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy" (2018)

“Democratic elections require that votes are supreme, not big-money. They require contested candidacies, not a two-party duopoly that increasingly reflects the same commercial interests.”

Ralph Nader

"American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy" (2018)

Money