Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's…

We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions…

— Carly Fiorina

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners…

— Paul Ryan

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

— Anatoly Chubais

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB…

— Michael Barone

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate…

— Bill Moyers

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— Monica Crowley

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what…

— Charles Koch

We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real conservatives believe…

— Van Jones

We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually…

— Arundhati Roy

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with…

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses…

— Steve Ditko

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties…

— Gary Johnson