Ralph Nader

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.