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Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.
Jim McGovern
Life
Rights
Legal
People
Corporate
Corporations
Enter
Ability
Through
Like
Limited
Perpetual
Governments
Contracts
Privileges
Legal Rights
Them
Created
Certain
Acting
Grant
By The People
Liability
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
Joe Baca
Time
Rights
Back
Corporations
Ruled
Would
Darker
Take
Had
Like
Underserved
Republicans
Us
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.
Joe J. Walsh
Complicated
Take Advantage
Big
Everybody
Corporations
System
GE
Wealthy
About
Only
Take
Simplify
Advantage
Individuals
Like
Ticked
Look
Loopholes
Big Corporations
Off
Get
Gets
Tax
Flatten
Tax System
Taxes
Convoluted
Paying
Warren
Rid
Warren Buffett
Code
Need
By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.
Joe Jamail
Day
Experience
Every Day
Big
Every
Corporations
Trial
Trial Lawyers
Cases
Only
Small
Only A Handful
Lawyers
Along
Come
Call
Courtroom
Still
Big Corporations
Huge
Handful
Handle
Get
Trying
Us
Who
Why
Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
John Delaney
Result
Nimble
Innovative
Corporations
More
Small
Small Businesses
Develop
Global
Ideas
Likely
Than
Breakthrough
Much
Businesses
Large
Need
Competitiveness
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
Judge
World
Become
Corporations
States
Independent
Would
Would-Be
Able
About
Consulting
Outside
Outside World
Almost
Well
Without
Scientific
Undertake
Were
Experiments
Which
Might
Less
Largest
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
John L. Lewis
Organization
Collective
Corporations
Collective Bargaining
Steel
Generally
Industrial
Industry
Accepted
Wage
Committee
Bargaining
Agreements
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
John Mackey
You
Selfish
Big
Greedy
Corporations
Say
Easier
Says
Has-Been
Corrupted
Mental
Foods
Exception
Big Corporations
Been
Yes
Model
Want
Exploitative
Much
Really
Whole
Whole Foods
Fundamentally
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
John Maeda
Today
Focus
Lost
Innovate
Earnings
Corporations
Ability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Sharp
Razor
Line
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
John McAfee
Value
Corporation
Corporations
Security
Could
Because
Understand
End
Information
Competitive
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
John Perkins
Business
School
Organization
Nation
National
Late
Back
Corporations
Security
Least
Understood
Private
Ultimately
Spy
National Security
Sixties
While
Agency
Worked
Business School
Initially
Largest
There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
John Stossel
Government
You
Reality
Money
Power
Corporate
Corporations
Only
Could
Force
Protesting
Against
Persuade
Use
Actually
Ton
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
John W. Snow
Reality
Job
Corporations
Must
Immortality
More
Lifetime
Than
Any
Anyone
Cannot
Start
Guarantee
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham
Great
Reality
Comforting
Wonderful
Complicated
Caricatures
Corporations
Sector
Would
Would-Be
More
Fail
Terrible
Always
Private
Were
Governments
Private Sector
Than
Public
Public Sector
Alas
I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.
Jon Tester
People
Prison
Think
Corporation
Corporations
Would
Would-Be
Put
Know
Lot
Than
Different
Mean
Whole
If I was the leader of the House of Representatives, the first thing I would do is I would put in a very clean bill on reapportionment. And I would put a very clean bill in that says that corporations are not people.
Jon Tester
People
Leader
First
Corporations
Says
Would
Clean
Put
House
House Of Representatives
First Thing
Very
The First Thing
Representatives
Bill
Thing
You learn a lot about vital corporations through non-vital corporations.
Jonathan Ive
You
Corporations
Vital
About
Through
Learn
Lot
The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Power
Corporations
Media
Need
It isn't inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable that we have a form of globalization in which corporations use the threat of moving jobs abroad to lower wages. None of this is inevitable.
Joseph Stiglitz
Inevitable
Pay
Corporations
Jobs
Threat
Abroad
Globalization
None
Wages
Form
Which
Moving
Taxes
Lower
Use
Used
To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.
Joseph Stiglitz
Me
Problem
Closed
Doors
Corporations
Negotiations
Someone
More
Clear
Like
Most
Trade
Got
Than
Closed Doors
Closely
Behind
Wanted
Agenda
Who
Watched
Set
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.
Josh Fox
Government
People
Citizen
Control
Our
Way
Corporations
System
Diminishing
Wealthy
Individual
Powerful
Over
Cater
Because
Lot
Up
American
American Citizen
Lives
Deeply
Dissatisfied
Set
I will not let the interests of powerful corporations close our economy or jeopardize consumers.
Josh Hawley
Will
Our
Corporations
Consumers
Powerful
Economy
Close
Interests
Jeopardize
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.
Kamala Harris
Class
Giving
Big
Corporations
Give
Instead
Permanent
Real
Middle
Tax
Middle Class
Tax Cut
Cut
For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.
Kathryn Minshew
Great
Business
Own
Ownership
Way
Corporations
Those
Jobs
Seem
More
Weeks
Putting
Like
Great Way
Get
Upside
Working
Your
Flexibility
Lure
Starting
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
Ken Buck
Corporate
Corporations
Disadvantage
Puts
Particular
American
Tax
Income
Income Tax
When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.
Kevin Brady
Blame
Reality
People
Losing
Trend
Strategy
Other
Other Countries
Presidential
Corporations
Jobs
Disturbing
Countries
Longer
Democratic
Protect
Afford
American
Any
Candidates
Just
Want
Cannot
While
Workers
Ignore
Help
American Workers
Washington
Save
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