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

[Washington is] corporate-occupied territory, ... We need more political and civic energies inside the campaign to challenge this two-party duopoly that's trending toward one-party districts all over the country.

cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.

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

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory...