Arundhati Roy Quotes

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

Free markets were supposed to lead to free societies. Instead, today’s supercharged global economy is eroding the power of the people in democracies around the globe. Welcome to a world where the bottom line trumps the common good and government takes a back seat to big business.

Our moneyed man … have rallied under the banner of the millionaire, the banker, and the land monopolist, there railroad king, and the false politicians, to effect their purpose.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

The political battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight… when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money.

All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people.