Corporations Quotes - Page 26

• We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

  Michael Monroe

  Bending, Want, Pay

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• All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Political, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.138, Cornell University Press

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• Corporations cook very differently from how people do.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Cooks

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.11, Penguin

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• ...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.

  Ralph Caplan

  Running, Reading, Creative

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• The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Differences, Purpose, Firsts

  William Jennings Bryan (1914). “The people's law”

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• A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Exercise, Views, Law

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• The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Rights, Practice

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• When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Justice, Safety

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.

  Charles Derber

  Jobs, Real, Responsibility

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• As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

  Leo Hindery

  Desire, Fairness, Obligation

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• Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

  Ralph Nader

  Mccain

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Mean, Creating

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• Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

  John P. Kotter

  Exercise, Needs, Today

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.30, Harvard Business Press

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• The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, People, Citizens

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “What Roosevelt Says ...”

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• I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Should, Capitalist

  Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.

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• The most disturbing part of working on all these issues is the amount of money spent by corporations to confuse, mislead and misinform the public. This is one of the reasons why we are always taking two steps forward and three steps back.

  Laurie David

  Two, Issues, Three

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to be real tax reform, and the wealthiest and large corporations will pay.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Nurse, Reform

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.

  Sean Hannity

  Home, Cutting, Europe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.

  Harry Magdoff

  Goal, United States, World

  Harry Magdoff (1966). “Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism”

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• I have got to say, I'm a businessman, I work in business, worked with some very large corporations around the world, and I have never seen a better operating machine than what the New South Wales right machine is.

  Warren Mundine

  Machines, World, Wales

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values doesn't mean you have to compromise yourself. You got to get over this idea that you can't work for a big corporation, or for big oil or bigger pharma, because actually, those are some of the great jobs are and you can do good there.

  Dana Perino

  Jobs, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Industrialization

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

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