Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition... — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free… — Noam Chomsky 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
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The problem for free-market economists is that their policy recommendations at the dawn of a recession are not too sexy to the… — Christopher Westley Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“And though often forgotten, the more radical wing of the second-wave feminist movement also argued for fundamental challenges to the free market… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Not to mention the fact that the belief in conspiracy theories is already a form of conspiracy theory in itself. It's to… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was… — Eric J. Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
“My core argument is that most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the… — Robert W. McChesney Copy Share Image
Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
The irony of espousing social responsibility of fast food outlets from a party whose belief in the free market is paramount. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Conservatives by and large believe in the corrective power of the free market above all. If we don't like how private companies… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
“The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
The Single Market and Customs Union is not a true 'free' market. It is designed to suit the E.U. insiders, not the… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
We live in a capitalistic society, don't we? Our country is based on the idea of the free market. Why not incorporate… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place… — George Leef Copy Share Image
“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image