Beginning Quote by Charles Koch

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

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

— John Schnatter

There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in…

— Charles Koch

Less government in business and more business in government.

— Warren G. Harding

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where we once had a lot of independent businesses, a lot of local businesses, a lot of variety, we now actually just see a…

— Lina Khan

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be…

— Wayne Allard

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski

“Throughout American economic life, regulatory barriers to entry and competition limit innovation by providing excessive monopoly privileges through copyright and patent laws, restrict occupational…

— Robert J. Gordon

Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses)…

— Margaret Hodge

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which…

— Christine Gregoire

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

— Jasmine Guinness