Able Quote by Barack Obama

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys…

— Carl Icahn

What a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There…

— Emily Thornberry

You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at…

— Noam Chomsky

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere…

— Isaac Asimov

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has…

— Thomas Malthus

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct…

— William H. Seward

If we want a healthier, more diverse market - and more variety in our Halloween buckets - we could start by reviving some of…

— Lina Khan

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

— William Weld

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and…

— Cary Sherman

The key is to service a market that has not been serviced to its full potential.

— Linda Johnson Rice

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin