Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man. — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for… — Michael Hureaux-Perez Copy Share Image
“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The DeVoses were devout members of the Dutch Reformed Church, a renegade branch of Calvinism brought to America by Dutch immigrants, many… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“The typical undergraduate microeconomics textbook describes cases where markets are unlikely to produce efficient outcomes. These textbooks often claim that, in principle,… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Christians can disagree about public policy in good faith, and a libertarian and a social democrat can both claim to be living… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
“A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention… — Laurence M. Vance Copy Share Image
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang. — Daniel Morgan Copy Share Image