The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country. — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
“If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Our story of bus drivers reveals the existence of the proverbial elephant in the room. It shows that the living standards of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn’t government that gave us… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets,… — W. Brian Arthur 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
“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
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
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
“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
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in… — Jonathan Franzen 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
A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action. — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We see threats to liberal democracy coming from lots of directions. We have to create something new, a common response, because in… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image