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.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.
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