Michael Moore Quotes
Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.
Michael Moore, Author, Political Commentator, and Documentary Film Creator, Larry King Interview, CNN, August 2, 2010
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His last speech before his appointment to the court.
This criticism of business has been made ever since by many opposed to protectionism, corporate welfare, subsidies, and bailouts. Yet they get bigger each decade.
The State Department has always been reluctant to have the US Government make an official condemnation of the Turkish. Prior to the end of WWI. Turkey’s Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East which was discovered to be full of oil. Armenia had no oil. The State Department since then (and until the 1970s) it has made it a top priority to advocate for Standard Oil and other American oil companies with the Turks and then the Arabs regardless of the morality of the situation. Despite the fact that virtually every American leader wanted to advocate for the Armenians, the State Department held fast to not
upset Turkey about the Armenian Genocide. Cardashian was the first American who openly stated what the real motivation was. See {638251}, {620602}, {620603}, {620604}, {620605}, and {620606}
The Kimberly and Comstock lodes were natural deposits of copper and silver so close to the surface that it required very little work to remove the metal and sell the it.
He made this quotation when he was a member of the Wisconsin State legislator. He was describing the influence and interaction that corporations had with the Wisconsin state legislative process.
Chomsky sees this as a problem. Many others see it as a virtue that government agencies receive current information from companies and that there is an exchange of personnel where company officials bring their experience to assist government and corporations benefit from having executives who had some government experience.
The then New York gubernatorial candidate was rejecting the support of a major political leader, Patrick H. McCarren, who had been a paid lobbyist for Standard Oil.
Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, author, and activist. His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism.
