"Information is the currency of democracy. It's..." - Quote by Ralph Nader

“We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.”

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

“When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.”

“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”

“Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.”

“Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.”

“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

“A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.”