I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. -Ralph Nader

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems. -Ralph Nader

Power has to be insecure to be responsive. -Ralph Nader

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ―Groucho Marx