Joel Bakan Quotes

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

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

I don’t care how many ways you try and explain it. Corporations are not people. People are people.

...it is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

I don't believe corporations are people.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your average liberal and condemn them just because they exist.

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.

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.

Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people.

You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

The great power in America is the corporations - we're a corporate country. We're run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.