Corporate Elites Quotes

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).

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.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

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

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

If they [steel magnates] don't do well, I don't do well.

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

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

Corporations are the new dictators.

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

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

I am well aware that the International Bankers who drive up to the door of the United States Treasury in their limousines, look down with scorn upon members of Congress because we work for so little, while they draw millions a year. The difference is that we earn, or try to earn, what we get- and they steal the greater part of their takings.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.

I have been advocating for a long time that the Export Import Bank shouldn't be for one or two companies, and that's what it's for, basically.

Big business has no party and never shall have.

We are ruled by big business and the government as its paid hireling … the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of CEOs.

The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.