Contractor Quotes - Page 4

• I think that idealism is always there in America. It's a spirit that's been subverted lately, and sold down the river to the contractors, what with the privatizing of all aspects of the government. It's so cold and cynical - all dollars and cents and parcel it up and sell it out and downgrade it and outsource it. They don't consider what it does to people. I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.

  Tim Matheson

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like other undocumented people in this country, I want a green card, and I want a driver's license, and I want a passport. What, to me, is the immigration bill? It's a green card, a driver's license, and a passport. That's what it's about to me, tangibly. That I could see my mom. That I could drive. Is there anything more American than driving? That I could get a green card and be able to - right now, I'm just like freelancing and working as an independent contractor. It's hilarious. I'm unhirable.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Mom, Country, Independent

  4 Copy quote

• The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story.

  Ken Loach

  War, Home, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• All over the world the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.

  Julian Assange

  Military, Mean, Use

  "Julian Assange: the whistleblower". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Modern Life, Defense

  4 Copy quote

• The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Division Of Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Character, Done, Pitching

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Jobs, New Job, Want

  "Caterpillar CEO: Higher taxes do not stimulate anything". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Real, Priorities

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

  Studs Terkel

  Independent, Iraq, Term

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

  Tony Fadell

  Water, House, Design

  4 Copy quote

• Within two weeks of moving into the White House, Obama signed a series of executive orders championed by union bosses. The new rules authorized sweeping powers for the labor secretary that essentially blackball nonunion contractors targeted by labor organizers and blacklist nonunion employees in the private sector from working on taxpayer-funded projects.

  Michelle Malkin

  Moving, Order, Two

  "Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 13, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Jobs, Independent, Good And Bad

  4 Copy quote

• Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

  Robert James Thomson

  Tears, Gone, Down And

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Years, People, Community

  Source: bigthink.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source