Corporate Quotes - Page 34

• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Government, Order

  Ralph Nader (2007). “Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender”, p.332, Macmillan

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• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Interest, Captives

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Usual, Watches

  Ralph Nader (2011). “In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000-2003”, p.177, Seven Stories Press

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• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  Indra Nooyi

  Years, Issues, Three

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• Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

  Grover Norquist

  Want, Damage, Small Business

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• People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

  Edward Norton

  People, Degrees, Worried

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• I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Rights, Talking, Constitution

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Writing, Oil

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Fate, Decision, Borders

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

  River Phoenix

  Climbing, Hands, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

  Herbert Read

  Life, Literature, Dull

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

  David Rockefeller

  Giving, Charitable, Philanthropic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

  Paul Ryan

  Successful, Growth, Helping

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

  Paul Ryan

  Political, Welfare, Patronage

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, People, Boards

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Cutting, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political, Citizens United, Campaigns

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.sanders.senate.gov. February 5, 2013.

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• In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.

  Howard Schultz

  Lying, Exercise, Years

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• The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

  Will Self

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "My Other Life: Will Self". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

  Simon Sinek

  Impact, People, Matter

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• History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

  Neal Shusterman

  Wind, Written

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• "What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion." "With your first being..." Kat prompted. "Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group.

  Ally Carter

  Passion, Cutting, Groups

  "Perfect Scoundrels". Book by Ally Carter, February 5, 2013.

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