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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.
I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.
I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.
Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't.
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy.
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
In some cases, corporations engaged in this activity have as much as 16 percent of their profits generated through the holding of 'janitor's insurance.'
Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.
I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.
As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.
It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.
We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.
Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is that rich corporations don't pay taxes - workers do.
Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.
I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.