Corporations Quote by Chellie Pingree Download Open image “Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.” — Chellie Pingree ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corporations How Important People Purpose Serve Telling Them Vote
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Government policy would advance in the direction of people if we just voted consistently for politicians who represent the interests of people. This is… — David Akadjian Copy Share Image
I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech. — Scott Peters 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 able to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I don't represent corporations. There's people that own corporations, but I represent the people of my district. — Charlie Melancon Copy Share Image
Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees'… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I love to come home and work on one of my other jobs. Just to remember that the floors gotta be mopped, and that… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or a survey and Legal Services Corporation board when President [Jimmy ]Carter appointed me and trying to get lawyers for poor people. I have worked in these areas. I know it's more than just a hope. You've… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that they are virtually indistinguishable. Ever the Governing Executives of OneiriCon, many of whom are defectors from the Nightmare Network, throw themselves into the depths of the new order and lose all sense of identity in the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image