Pastoral Resources

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.