"Word of mouth is the most effective..." - Quote by Ralph Nader

“General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.”

“Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.”

“Secrecy destroys accountability.”

“I have a hold limit that I've set for myself. I hold until I start to imagine myself killing the person on the other end. Then I hang up and regroup.”

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

“If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.”

“John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.”