Corporations Quote by Paul Craig Roberts

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

— Ralph Nader

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

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.

— Chuck Fleischmann

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies…

— Matt Taibbi

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

— Stewart Alsop

“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

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

— Tom Rice

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and…

— William Greider

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Corporate government law enforcement departments act in the interests of the corporations, even if those actions are illegal.”

— Steven Magee

“Lobby—a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.”

— Jack London

Before you can have an act of Congress, you have to have a Congress willing to act.

— Al N. Green