Profiteering Quotes

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

We are opposed to swarms of Americans and other foreigners raising prices throughout Germany while millions of Germans are starving because of the increased prices. We are equally opposed to German profiteers and we are demanding that all be imprisoned.

You believe you are dying for the fatherland—you die for some industrialist.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

We have the worst-equipped army in the world … our people don’t give a damn. They’re too busy making money.

If you steal from the American public, whether you use a gas pump or a gun, you ought to do hard time.

... a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

British authorities were … outraged that Colonial merchants had made illicit fortunes by supplying French forces during the 7 Years War.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

Tax the profiteers.

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

There are an awful lot of people making lots of money promoting fear. Their hot microphones have flamethrowers.

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

John Jacob Astor, the first American multimillionaire and the richest man in the country at the time of his death in 1848, was an accomplished smuggler. Astor engaged in a variety of illicit trading ventures, smuggling opium …, trading with the enemy during the war of 1812, and clandestinely exchanging banned alcohol with Native Americans for furs.

We have lost control over our own power. We have surrendered the decisions about where electricity is sold—and for how much, to private companies with only one objective: maximizing unheard-of profits.

It seems to me intolerable to allow private people to use public capital in order to make a guaranteed profit for themselves .... If private citizens won’t supply munitions of war at a reasonable profit and take pot luck with the rest of the citizens in the matter of taxation, then the government ought to build its own plants and conscript the necessary managers to run them.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

What is price gouging and what is capitalism can sometimes be a fine line.

Jesus died for your sins. I'm doing it for your mere entertainment dollar.

There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.

The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.