If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
Ralph NaderNow unless you have billions of dollars, it's impossible to reach tens of millions of American people no matter how hard you campaign.
Ralph NaderThings have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
Ralph NaderWhen I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.
Ralph Nader