Words

Ralph Nader

Peter Camejo

"Today we face grave and growing societal problems in health care, education, labor, energy and the environment. These are problems for which active citizens have solutions, yet their voices are not carrying across the democracy gap. Citizen groups and individual thinkers have generated a tremendous capital of ideas, information, and solutions to the point of surplus, while our government has been drawn away from us by a corporate government. Our political leadership has been hijacked.
Citizen advocates have no other choice but to close the democracy gap by direct political means. Only effective national political leadership will restore the responsiveness of government to its citizenry. Truly progressive political movements do not just produce more good results; they enable a flowering of progressive citizen movements to effectively advance the quality of our neighborhoods and communities outside of politics."

"If the rich paid the same rate as the poor and we closed tax loopholes, there would be no deficit. I stand for: renewable energy, single payer universal health care, pro-choice, saving our ancient forests, legal marriage and drivers licenses for all, a living wage, affordable housing, instant run off elections (IRV), the UN Charter, the World Court and our Bill of Rights. I stand against: the death penalty, three strikes racial profiling, the Patriot Act, wars of conquest, nuclear weapons... Vote Green!"

"I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature and I desire no other fate than to have
worked and lived in harmony with her laws."
-- Claude Monet, French artist.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-- The Lorax, Children's book by Dr. Seuss


"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th president of the United States