Citizens united Quote by Jane Mayer Download Open image ““the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice”” — Jane Mayer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizens united Gilded age Justice Respect
“By overturning many of these restrictions, the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up and banners flying, at the other end of it; had elected itself to be the Nation, and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come at last to accept it as a… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“It is shocking, but true, that in today's America, "Justice" is a purchasable commodity.” — Phillip B. Davidson Copy Share Image
“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Gold is reserved for those who know its laws and abide by them.” — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
“In the trail of justice amid the league of injustice, the nostalgia of truth will adjudge the victory of law” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
“Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a ‘less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble… — Guy Lawson Copy Share Image
“Great lawyers and statesmen had stepped forward from their ranks, men who had shaped the nation and passed it along in good shape to… — Tommy Wieringa Copy Share Image
“It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried on by… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“I also believe that to truly win back that trust, criminal justice professionals like myself, together with Americans of all shapes, sizes, and colors,… — Burke Strunsky Copy Share Image
“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I voted fror Trump because I genuinely thought that Hillary Clinton was a threat to the American experiment. I usually do not talk in… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
In order to preserve our democracy we must come together to end the corrupting influence of money in politics - and we cannot do… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image