Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Beautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in… — Richard White Copy Share Image
If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions.… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
“The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working… — Bill Ripley Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Obviously I do have political views - I'm a believer in the free-market economy; I also believe that without competition and respect… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets. — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
“I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's… — Robert Kenner Copy Share Image
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image