If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market… — Nguyen Phu Trong Copy Share Image
The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.” — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't… — Liam Mellows Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism has proved its ability to adapt: at a time when so many younger people quite legitimately feel that the economic system… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image