mr. sweeney. once buy this book, you get a book. and every time ralph nader comes to busboys and poets, you get a gift. this is a perfect present for the holiday to give friends. so if you want to have it personalized to a friend that you want to give it to, please stick around afterwards. we're going to have a book-signing here. so i'd like to welcome to our stage, one more time, mr. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much, andy. we all read the cover article of the "washington post" magazine this last sunday where he's called democracy's restaurateur, something that i thought was an inappropriate label for him, and he brings so many people together. it's so good for many of you come this evening. we want to welcome booktv. c-span is here, so we'll stress the informality of this effort as this is tradition of booktv, which is going to relay some of your comments as well. now, we've all heard about dozens of corporate abuses, and we've all heard how ineffectual the responses have been to these corporate predatory act

mr. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank-you. >> thank you. thank you very much. we all read the cover article in the "washington post" magazine this past sunday. democracy's restaurateur. something that i thought was inappropriate level for him. you bring so many people together. very give you to come this evening. want to welcome book tv. c-span is here. so we will stress the informality of this effort as this is tradition of book tv, which is going to replace some of your comments as well. now, we have all heard about dozens of corporate abuses. we have all heard how ineffectual the responses of ben to these corporate credit for it -- predatory activities, whether economic, financial, health, safety, environmental, war, poverty, damaging, posterity. again and again the media, although it could do much better, does report phar-mor then we as citizens are organized to use, whether it's national, international, local, or regional. and the district of columbia bereft of any voting rights in the congress's an example of that. that documented many times, and we have