Bill of rights Quote by L. Neil Smith

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the…

— Jim McGovern

“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”

— Kalle Lasn

The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

— Ian Bremmer

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

— Hank Johnson

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Corporations haven’t limited their grasp to the First Amendment; pretty much any and virtually every amendment that could be used to further corporate interests…

— Thom Hartmann

It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for…

— Dennis Kucinich

“Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn’t say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t written with that idea; corporations aren’t mentioned…

— Thom Hartmann