The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
Ralph NaderThere are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.
Ralph NaderWhat's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.
Ralph Nader