the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens
– Fairclough Norman
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- Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item. – Sheena Iyengar
- Americans used to be ‘citizens.’ Now we are ‘consumers. – Vicki Robin
- When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else. – Michael Houbrick
- For Madison, on the other hand, -œa Public Debt is a Public curse,- and -œin a Representative Government greater than in any other.-26 – Joseph J Ellis
- I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. – Criss Jami
- A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold
- An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government. – Amit Kalantri
- Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices. – Steven Magee
- The fight for truth…is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth. – Vandana Shiva
- Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. – Abhijit Naskar
- People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. – Norman Cousins
- Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
- The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens. – Mike Klepper
- A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion . – Youns Hussein
- Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates. – Nancy Snow
- One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. – Ron Paul
- An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares. – Amit Kalantri
- The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens. – Sunday Adelaja
- But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime. – Tara Brach
- New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period.Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes andin your pants. – Libba Bray
- I am with the Hot Sexy Banking Corporation. As all the other banks are going bust, they are just getting bustier. – Robert Clark
- Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants. – Libba Bray
- What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO’s were raped every year? Don’t you think that would raise a kind of ruckus? – Inga Muscio
- My father’s corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years. – Lisa Kessler
- Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. -˜Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. – Daniel Suarez
- We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off. – Michael Monroe
- Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
- you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation. – Jeffrey Fischer
- Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. – Harold Holzer
- Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public. – Amit Kalantri
- When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
- His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too. – Suzanne Collins
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
- Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. – Elizabeth Alexander
- We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed. – Bryant McGill
- Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you. – Laura Busche
- Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit. – Jeffrey D Sachs