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.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
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