issues2000.org


Home Issues Leaders Recent Grid Archive Senate House VoteMatch_Quiz FAQs
 2008 Election:  McCain's book Obama's book Biden's book Palin's booklet Keyes' book Nader's book Barr's book      2008   Debates 
2008 presidential race
2009 State of the Union speech
Presidential Debates: Third Obama-McCain Debate - Second Obama-McCain Debate - V.P. debate, Biden vs. Palin - First Obama-McCain Debate
Vice Presidential background materials:

Gov. Sarah Palin: Booklet - Debate - Profile - Wasilla - Governor
Sen. Joe Biden: Bio - Profile - Debates
Convention coverage:
Dems - GOP - McCain - Palin - Obama - Biden - Nader - Barr
McCain-Obama joint appearances:
Aug.16 -Jul.12 -Jun.28 -
Fox -CNN -
MtP -Ads
2008 Democratic primary debates
Apr.16 -Apr.13 -Feb.26 -Feb.21 -Feb.11 -Jan.31 -Jan.28 -Jan.21 -Jan.15 -Jan.5
2008 Republican primary debates
Feb.7 -Jan.30 -Jan.28 -Jan.24 -Jan.10 -Jan.6 -Jan.5
2008 Green primary debates
Feb.3 -Jan.13
2007 Republican primary debates
 Dec.22 -Dec.12 -Dec.9 -Nov.28 -Oct.21 -Oct.9 -Sep.27 -Sep.17 -Sep.5 -Aug.5 -Jun.5 -May 15 -May 3
2007 Democratic primary debates
 Dec.22 -Dec.13 -Dec.4 -Dec.1 -Nov.15 -Oct.30 -Sep.26 -Sep.20 -Sep.13 -Sep.9 -Aug.19 -Aug.9 -Aug.7 -Jul.23 -Jun.28 -Jun.3 -Apr.26 -Apr.10
Excerpts from Books by and about 2008 candidates
Sen. John McCain (R, AZ)
Why Courage Matters
Sen. Barack Obama(D, IL)
Dreams From My Father
Sen. Joe Biden (D, DE)
Promises to Keep
Gov. Sarah Palin (R, AK)
New Energy for Alaska
Rep. Bob Barr (L)
The Meaning of IS
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (G)
Green Party Debate
Ralph Nader (I)
The Good Fight
Alan Keyes (NAIP)
Our Character, Our Future
Sen. Hillary Clinton
It Takes A Village
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Leadership
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Character Makes A Difference
Amb. Alan Keyes
Our Character, Our Future
Rep. Ron Paul
Freedom Under Siege
Gov. Mitt Romney
Turnaround

(click a book cover for excerpts and a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)

No Contest:
Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America,
by Ralph Nader & Wesley J. Smith


(Click for Amazon book review)

Click here for 18 full quotes from Ralph Nader in the book No Contest, by Ralph Nader.
OR click on an issue category below for a subset.
Budget & Economy
   1990s S&L crisis cost taxpayers billions.
Corporations
   Corporate state gives away public assets to private monopoly.
   More public disclosure of corporate lawsuit outcomes.
   Legal delaying tactics cause crisis in confidence in law.
   Billing quotas pressure corporate lawyers to pad bills.
   Ethical rules should REQUIRE reporting corporate misconduct.
Environment
   Ridiculous to sell public land for corporate gold mining.
Government Reform
   Secret lawsuit settlements deprive public of power to decide.
   Tighten ethics rules on lawyers, to judge cases on merits.
   Ken Starr had conflict on partiality, and corporate ties.
   Supplement Legal Services Corporation with free lawyer work.
Health Care
   Big Pharma blocks selling generic drugs to Third World.
   Council for Tobacco Research is for propaganda, not research.
   Tobacco industry hid truth via attorney-client privilege.
   Stop shifting liability from HMOs to doctors.
   Stop firing doctors for pointing out bad conditions at HMOs.
Welfare & Poverty
   Housing legislation converted pro bono to profit.
   Lawyers have duty to do pro bono work for the poor.


    Click for quotations from other sources by:
  • Ralph Nader

The above quotations are from No Contest:
Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America,
by Ralph Nader & Wesley J. Smith.

Logo
All material copyright 1999-2013
by OnTheIssues.org
Reprinting by permission only.

E-mail: submit@OnTheIssues.org
Mail
Send donations or submit quotations to:
OnTheIssues.org
1770 Massachusetts Ave. #630
Cambridge, MA 02140



OnTheIssues.org
Home Page
Most recent quotations Archive of books & debates Candidate Matching Quiz