Chellie Pingree Quotes

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.

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.

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.

There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.

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

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

Corporations are not people. Corporations fire people.

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.

The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

A corporation is not a citizen. It may be an artificial person, a moral person, a juridical person, a legal entity, a faculty, an intangible, invisible being…. it certainly is not a citizen.

I don't believe corporations are people.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point in this country where some people aren't people just because they have different color skin or different religion or were born in a lawyer's office, only exist on paper, have no soul and can never die.

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

Liberals hate corporations, folks. Corporations are not people.