Economic Quote by Ronald Reagan

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

— Bill Owens

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do…

— Dick Cheney

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money…

— Laurance Labadie

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

— Rick Scott

“Under the neoliberal worldview, governments exist in order to create the optimal conditions for private interests to maximize their profits and wealth, based on…

— Naomi Klein

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

— Stephen Moore

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

— Bernie Sanders

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job…

— George W. Bush

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small…

— Bill Richardson