Corporations Quotes - Page 29

• The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.

  Chuck D

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

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• Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Nice, Exercise, Matter

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• I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.

  Keith Ellison

  Race, Want, Investment

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• It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

  Dana Bash

  Country, Running, Long

  "McConnell: Race relations have 'gotten better' under Obama" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Jobs, Want

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• We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Children, Real

  "Senator Bernie Sanders Launches His Political Revolution for the Presidency of the United States" by Pearl Korn, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2015.

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• The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.

  Brian Martin

  Mean, Government, Ideas

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• In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.

  Robert Lawlor

  Powerful, Taken, Numbers

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• All employees are obliged to act in concert, to behave in accordance with corporate form and corporate law. If someone attempted to revolt against these teets, it would only result in the corporation throwing the person out, and replacing that person with another who would act according to the rules. Form determines content: Corporations are machines.

  Jerry Mander

  Law, Machines, Form

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• People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Medicine, People

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• Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.

  David Letterman

  Cutting, Half, Pay

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• While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

  Assata Shakur

  Cutting, Space, Fire

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

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• Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Regret, Responsibility, Winning

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• I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

  Adam Schlesinger

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, White, House

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Wall, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

  Henry Rollins

  Government, Democracy, Calling

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

  Ian Bremmer

  Government, People, Battle

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

  Ian Bremmer

  Government, People, Too Much Power

  Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

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• There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Jobs, Government

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Land, America, Air

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• We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

  Hank Johnson

  Rights, Needs, Speech

  "Dem Rep. Hank Johnson: Amend Constitution to Restrict Freedom of Speech" by Eric Scheiner, www.cnsnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Economic, Social, Institutions

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• For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Self Confidence, Insecure

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• Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.

  Jack Welch

  Powerful, Believe, People

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