There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man. — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare. — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in… — Michael Badnarik 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
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points.… — Dan Gillmor Copy Share Image
“The typical undergraduate microeconomics textbook describes cases where markets are unlikely to produce efficient outcomes. These textbooks often claim that, in principle,… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“The DeVoses were devout members of the Dutch Reformed Church, a renegade branch of Calvinism brought to America by Dutch immigrants, many… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“Christians can disagree about public policy in good faith, and a libertarian and a social democrat can both claim to be living… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang. — Daniel Morgan Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention… — Laurence M. Vance Copy Share Image
The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image