Common good Quotes by Joel Miller

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

— Joel Miller

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

— Joel Miller

Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and…

— Joel Miller

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

— Joel Miller

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word,…

— Joel Miller

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy…

— Joel Miller

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

— Joel Miller

Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc.…

— Joel Miller

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

— Joel Miller

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

— Joel Miller

Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard…

— Joel Miller

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

— Joel Miller