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.
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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