#corporation

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#cited #company #corporate #corporations #enough

She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would wonder why she was doing this, struggling against commercial interests at a corporate hospital when all she wanted to do was help people, and in the morning, when she walked out of her beautiful home and unlocked her convertible, she would remember. ↗

— Max Berry

#fiction #beauty

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. ↗

— Robert Reich

#democracy #first-amendment #government #politics #public-assembly

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #else #example #had #i

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#corporations #government #lobby

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#about #almost #become #consulting #corporations

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. ↗

— David Byrne

#find #hard #i #little #major

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only. ↗

— Howard Coble

#calendar #calendars #classes #corporations #deal

What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right? ↗

— Susan George

#because #corporations #fair #got #i

The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#advertise #because #corporation #just #message