Ralph Nader Party Quotations

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.'

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Neither party can afford to stand tall for the American people and oppose the takeover of our political government by big business,

I've always been independent, it's a thing with me, ... I don't want to get involved in these internal Green Party disputes, that's for them to settle ... I want to extravert the party's agenda.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.