Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
Interpretation
This quote argues that corporations should not be granted the same rights as individuals, emphasizing the need for recognizing their limitations.
Elizabeth Warren's statement challenges the notion presented by Mitt Romney that corporations have the same rights as individuals. By asserting that 'corporations are not people,' Warren highlights the concern that treating corporations as individuals can lead to disproportionate influence over politics and society, ultimately undermining democratic values.
In practice
In a debate about corporate influence in politics.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,βnot the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.
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