"There's no better policy in a society..." - Quote by Ralph Nader

“Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.”

“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”

“She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.”

“Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.”

“There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”

“I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor.”

“I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.”

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

“The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.”