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Paul Watson

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

– Paul Watson

Nick Clegg

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

– Nick Clegg

Michael Shnayerson

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

– Michael Shnayerson

Martin Shkreli

I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

– Martin Shkreli

Franklin Foer

Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.

– Franklin Foer

Dick Gephardt

I’m running for president because I’ve had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

– Dick Gephardt

David Mamet

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with – bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons – when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

– David Mamet

Clive Sinclair

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

– Clive Sinclair

Charles C Mann

Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people’s homes efficiently, the water barons argue, is to put the process in the hands of the market. If water is scarce, then raise the price – let the law of supply and demand take over!

– Charles C Mann

Sports Willie Mays

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

– Willie Mays

Age Ben Fountain

The Gilded Age robber barons – the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers – did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest of Americans were still stuck in the ditch, with little to no economic security, life expectancy of roughly 45 years, and horrific infant mortality rates that claimed 300 babies per 1,000 in the cities.

– Ben Fountain

Adam Curtis Age

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children’s entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.

– Adam Curtis

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