David Cay Johnston on Family
Browse 3 quotations attributed to David Cay Johnston, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
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Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #127085: "Corporations are good things. They encourage people to take risk. They're smart vehicles for building wealth, but they also have to be controlled. ...he reason is, they are soulle…"
Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #58667: "Adam Smith, in his lessor known book, , says that the greatest corruption of our moral sentiments is a tendency to almost worship the rich, and to hold in bad regard people who ar…"
3 Quotes by David Cay Johnston on Family
"Corporations are good things. They encourage people to take risk. They're smart vehicles for building wealth, but they also have to be controlled. ...he reason is, they are soulless entities. A corporation has no morals and its purpose is to make money. ...If we have to induce diabetes in millions of children by getting them to drink sugary soft drinks and eat too many french fries and greasy hamburgers, do that."
"Adam Smith, in his lessor known book, , says that the greatest corruption of our moral sentiments is a tendency to almost worship the rich, and to hold in bad regard people who are poor. ...ur politicians reflect this, even though many of them will tell you... how religious they are. ...hey obviously have not studied their religious texts because, if they did, they would know that you are supposed to give all that thou hast to the poor. That's a standard I'm not willing to meet, but that's the standard that you are supposed to meet... It's certainly not to be mean and literally deny hungry children food."
"When Donald Trump took the oath of office "to faithfully execute the laws" and to be "loyal to the United States of America", he then got in a motorcade to go to the White House. There's a TV camera... in the truck... that looks square down the middle ...The presidential limousine... stopped... the family got out... they spent two minutes walking around... in front of the Trump International Hotel, whose lease says "no federal employee can be involved in that lease" and... we have jointly an employee named Donald J. Trump. He's our employee. ...he reason he did that was ...f you are an emissary... seeking a favor from Donald Trump, if you're an oil baron, or a coal company, or anybody else who wants a favor from the Trump administration, you got the message."