Quotes About Corporations

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.

Today, large numbers of citizens throughout the West are angry that the good life is being stolen from them. They are not quite sure whom to be angry at—immigrants, corporations, the government, politically correct liberals, the rich, the poor?

He just played the game smarter, and he did it through corporations—the biggest secret of the rich.

Because all those places have got stuff that we want. There's oil, and diamonds, and uranium. Alcoa needs tin and bauxite and copper. Halliburton wants to get in there and make a buck. Corporations from Texas want to get in there and run those same damn jails.

I was working on a money-laundering issue. There was a lot of cash and a mazy chain of shell corporations, like always, but I had the guy.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

Corporations are like protean bacteria; you hit them with accountability and they mutate and change their names.

Publicly traded corporations direct financial surpluses back to investors, CEOs, and boards of directors. They have little incentive to churn it back into the business and, as we have seen, a great deal of incentive to maximize surpluses at the expense of employees, the environment, and even the corporation itself.82

Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking.

There are also so many more corporations than governments that it's always possible to find success stories, thereby perpetuating the view that the private sector is better at planning than the government sector.

In 1937, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black would observe, with grim dismay, that, over the course of fifty years, "only one half of one percent of the Fourteenth Amendment cases that came before the court had anything to do with African Americans or former slaves, while over half of the cases were about protecting the rights of corporations.

In 1937, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black would observe, with grim dismay, that, over the course of fifty years, "only one half of one percent of the Fourteenth Amendment cases that came before the court had anything to do with African Americans or former slaves, while over half of the cases were about protecting the rights of corporations."63 Rights guaranteed to the people were proffered, instead, to corporations.

The problem, of course, lies in companies viewing governments and citizens as equals, while in fact governments are, by and large, using their power to implement policies where passing laws is impossible without also changing the national constitution. By remaining neutral, corporations are acting as conduits of the state. They are today's censors, not unlike the religious institutions and governments that came before them.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Small businesses and large corporations alike reap huge rewards from a great company culture.

Today, of course, the dictatorship would be of the extreme left, but nevertheless would include the power of both the government and the corporations that have their hands in public affairs.

Many SWAT teams are essentially accountable to no one. These independent SWAT groups claim that although they are funded by the taxpayers, they have incorporated and therefore, as private corporations, they are exempt from opening their records to the public.

it's fair to wonder whether pharmaceutical corporations may have manipulated the WHO in an effort to sell swine flu vaccine. These companies had invested millions of dollars researching and developing

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.