"The whole story of human history is:..." - Quote by Ralph Nader

“As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.”

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

“This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.”

“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”

“Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.”

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

“If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”

“It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.”

“Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.”