Billions Quote by Lawrence Lessig Download Open image “[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare” — Lawrence Lessig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billions Congress Corporate Cronies Dollars Hundred Secure Welfare
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't… — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
Before Congress cuts funding for Head Start, Social Security, and financial aid for college, we have got to make sure that large, profitable corporations… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern governments have the pernicious problem of trying to reward too many corporate donors.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to… — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image