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“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.”

“Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.”

Ifs Real Would Be America Pay Land Property Profit Owners Cents

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.”

World Country Philosophy Today America Form Universe Results Intellectual Profit Yield Construction Elsewhere Technological Strict Assured Procedures Logistics Anglo Saxon

Author:Martin Heidegger

“In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.”

Helping Today America Form Politics Wealth Economy Workers Profit Corporate Liberalism Ownership Distribution Unhealthy Profit Sharing

Author:Walter Reuther

“America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.”

America Profit Prize Competitors Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:William J. Clinton

“Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.”

Thinking World Should Problem Hands America Company Leader Products Offers Aim Profit Managers Making Money Corporate Executives Efficient World Leader Providers Credo

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.”

“America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.”

Source: Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

“We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.”

People America Notion Profit Right Thing Motive Profit Motive

Author:Chris Matthews

“America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.”

Matter America Belief Leader Profit Capitalist Polarization

Author:Alice Walker