Committees Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it…

— Bernie Sanders

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 identity of political donors should be disclosed and bureaucratic rules should not circumvent the original intent of federal law or interfere with the…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

— Edward Coke

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

— Harold Coffin

“Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Shareholders, of course, have every right to weigh in on whether (or how) they want a company to exercise political influence.

— Ari Melber

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

— L. Neil Smith

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

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

— Charles Edward Merriam