The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no. — Jeff Tremaine Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Home-based businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in our economy, and that trend will only continue, as the age of the… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“If they’re smart enough to be useful they get ideas about making themselves indispensable—ideas about getting above their station, as you Brits… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has… — Jeremy Hammond Copy Share Image
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more… — Robin Hahnel Copy Share Image
The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
When I was younger, it wasn't clear that I could be stronger on my own, outside of a system of corporations. — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
Since when do corporations not have responsibility to the community? Since when to the not have responsibility to their employees? — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech… — Chris Coons Copy Share Image
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and… — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or)… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.' — Michele Simon Copy Share Image
