Cases Quote by Andrew Jackson

Shareholders, of course, have every right to weigh in on whether (or how) they want a company to exercise political influence.

— Ari Melber

“The wealthy exert a commanding influence over the state through virtually unlimited political campaign contributions, armies of lobbyists, the revolving door that shuffles former…

— David A. Nibert

If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to…

— Noreena Hertz

“Nothing is truer than the statement shrewdly made in a Hearst paper, that there are just two things that operate decisively upon the intelligence…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

“The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their…

— James Morcan

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities,…

— Walter Lippmann

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

— Gerald R. Ford

“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A…

— Mary J. Ruwart

Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry…

— Charles Derber

The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But…

— George Monbiot