Joe Berlinger Quotes

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

The question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

Corporations are people.

A corporation has no soul.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

Corporations are not people. That’s why we have different laws governing corporations and governing people.

One of the problems I have with the administration is that they're not tough enough. They are waiting for BP to say, 'Oh, we've got a new plan to stop the oil leak.' They need to stop it, contain it, clean it up.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

You know, Chevron - we don't do original research on climate change. It's the government's role to do that, and we accept the determinations that are there.

I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

It is high time SoCalGas is held responsible for its actions.

Taking on corporate greed is an environmental concern.

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.