Balancing act Quote by Charles Derber

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The balancing act is challenging at times.

— Jeremy Jones

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power.…

— Ben Cohen

“four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are…

— Daniel Suarez

“spirit of monopoly…the great enemy of Democracy…The passing events of the day show how immense a power is exercised by corporations. They are weapons…

— Adam Wasserman

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the…

— Anonymous

You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and…

— Hillary Clinton

In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

— Russ Feingold