#corporations

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#governor #governor romney #guy #mitt #mitt romney

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#corporations #media #need #power

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way. ↗

— John Grisham

#am #american #american way #big #big corporations

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#also #better #businesses #corporations #customers

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#being #capital #companies #concentrated #corporations

American corporations hate to give away money. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#away #corporations #give #hate #money

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#banks #business #clean #clean energy #come

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

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#corporations #down #extra #form #general