Believe Quote by Rick Perry

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

— Kevin Carson

“government can't do everything. That there are times where it can hit at market forces—that we've got to strike the right balance between free…

— David Blum

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is…

— Joseph Crowley

“a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails,…

— Milton Friedman

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

— E. J. Dionne