Quotes tagged ‘Corporations’

“There’s a direct correlation between corporations that are getting rich, and the fact that we have students who are shackled with debt. There is a direct correlation between the White House and the people who are benefiting from detention beds that are profitized [sic].”

— Ilhan Omar, ips-dc.org

“When American families are barely living paycheck to paycheck, what is this administration's response? Their response is to try to take away healthcare from millions of families. Their response is to give away a trillion dollars to the biggest corporations in this country. And their response is to b…”

— Kamala Harris, cnn.com

“What kind of people are we? What are our shared values? Many congressional Republicans think it’s fine to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to giant oil companies and corporations that park their money overseas, even as medical research budgets are hit by another round of cuts and care centers…”

— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com

“Today the game is rigged—rigged to work for those who have money and power. Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor. Meanwhile, hardworking f…”

— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com

“Vivian: Did you close the deal? Claire: Looks like it. Verizon Wireless presents the Indominus Rex. Lowery: Ugh, that is so terrible. Why not just go the distance, Claire, and just let these corporations name the dinosaurs? They got all the ballparks. Why stop there?”

— Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Claire Dearing, Bryce Dallas Howard, imdb.com

“Corporations keep general counsels in order to have someone to blame if things go badly.”

— David E Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro, Donald Cooperman, William Hurt, imdb.com

“Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism....We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not ag…”

— Theodore Roosevelt, stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net

“We should be rewarding work in this country, not doling out lavish tax cuts to big businesses, CEOs, and bankers.”

— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.com

“Every CEO on the planet knows that people are important, but not enough put their people first, - a little rant.”

— Simon Sinek, twitter.com

“This is the trickle down lie: that if you help big business, this will create better jobs & wages. NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THIS IS TRUE!”

— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com

“The corporation is an externalizing machine in the same way that a shark is a killing machine. There isn't any question of malevolence or will.”

— Robert Montis, amazon.com

“It's time we finally brought our tax system up to date by reducing the burden on most Americans, simplifying the system for everyone, providing a sensible policy for large corporations and small businesses, and cutting out the billions of your dollars we waste every year...and then, to top it all of…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“This plan will be paid for by reducing or eliminating most of the deductions and loopholes that allow the very rich to pay lower taxes, by the repatriation of corporate cash held overseas, by putting an end to allowing corporations to defer taxes on income earned outside this country, and by cutting…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“A key component of this plan is a onetime repatriation of corporate cash now held overseas at a 10 percent tax rate. Under this plan, corporations would profit tremendously by bringing home that $2.5 trillion and putting it to work—while benefitting from the globally competitive, newly lowered corpo…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“In an inversion a company moves its legal headquarters to a lower-tax nation and pays taxes there. It isn't illegal or dishonest or even unpatriotic, it's just good business. Any business that does not take advantage of the opportunity to increase revenue by lowering its taxes isn't being properly m…”

— Donald Trump, amazon.com

“There's nobody there. There's nobody in charge. All a large corporation is is a set of commands . It's like a very simple computer program and if you look at what that program is, you can hack it to do whatever you damn well please because there's nobody in charge. Nobody understands. I mean that's…”

— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com