Political Quotes - Greed is Good ... Or Maybe a Bane
"I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much."
~ Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie Wall Street
"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."
~ Mitt Romney, candidate in the Republican Presidential Primary
"When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'"
~ David Letterman
"Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire."
~ Conan O'Brien
'I get it about job creation,' Perry said, after saying Bain Capital had eliminated 150 jobs in Gaffney, S.C. 'I understand the difference between venture capital and vulture capitalism.'
~ Quoted on NPR News
“This is a story of greed, of playing the system for a quick buck, a group of corporate raiders led by Mitt Romney more ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.”
~ Voice-over from King of Bain video promoted by a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, “Winning Our Future.”
I would have preferred to wait, yes, to keep the bottle of whup-ass fresher. At the same time - and this is important to note - having the Republicans eat their own actually makes the Bain story more potent than we ever could...
~ Anonymous Obama Aide to Talking Points Memo
Comedian Stephen Colbert has gotten his name on the ballot in South Carolina and is polling higher than Jon Huntsman, who dropped out of the race on Friday the 13th.
Colbert’s super PAC, run by fellow comedian Jon Stewart, recently created a campaign ad calling front-runner Mitt Romney a serial killer. The ad portrays Romney as “Mitt the Ripper” for slashing jobs, because “Corporations are people.”
“I have no control over that ad,” Colbert said. “I am not calling anybody a serial killer. I can’t tell Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow what to do.”
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~ Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 movie Wall Street
"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."
~ Mitt Romney, candidate in the Republican Presidential Primary
"When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'"
~ David Letterman
"Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire."
~ Conan O'Brien
'I get it about job creation,' Perry said, after saying Bain Capital had eliminated 150 jobs in Gaffney, S.C. 'I understand the difference between venture capital and vulture capitalism.'
~ Quoted on NPR News
“This is a story of greed, of playing the system for a quick buck, a group of corporate raiders led by Mitt Romney more ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.”
~ Voice-over from King of Bain video promoted by a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, “Winning Our Future.”
I would have preferred to wait, yes, to keep the bottle of whup-ass fresher. At the same time - and this is important to note - having the Republicans eat their own actually makes the Bain story more potent than we ever could...
~ Anonymous Obama Aide to Talking Points Memo
Comedian Stephen Colbert has gotten his name on the ballot in South Carolina and is polling higher than Jon Huntsman, who dropped out of the race on Friday the 13th.
Colbert’s super PAC, run by fellow comedian Jon Stewart, recently created a campaign ad calling front-runner Mitt Romney a serial killer. The ad portrays Romney as “Mitt the Ripper” for slashing jobs, because “Corporations are people.”
“I have no control over that ad,” Colbert said. “I am not calling anybody a serial killer. I can’t tell Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow what to do.”
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