Politics Quote by Don Watkins

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

— Paul Ryan

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public…

— Raghuram Rajan

We are against crony capitalism.

— Arvind Kejriwal

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

— Jordan Peterson

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority…

— James Madison

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which…

— Carly Fiorina

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what…

— Charles Koch

“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?”

— Branko Milanović

“inequality is instead an emergent property of the interactions between agents and the environment. Since this effect comes about from aggregation of all the…

— Rich Jolly

“Nothing is more difficult than to equalize the action of the government in reference to the various and diversified interests of the community; and…

— John C. Calhoun

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not,…

— James F. Cooper