“I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.” WholeTaxesStructureWhole LifeProgressiveRegulationFree MarketCleanersProgressive Tax Author:Jamie Dimon
“We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.” NeedsDoeInterestConsumerismSpeculationFree Market Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.” ShouldHumansFacesSupportEconomyGlobalizationFree MarketMarket EconomyHuman Faces Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.” PeopleIfsDoneEnoughWould BeJobsPayPaidWorkersVery GoodGood JobFree MarketPennies Author:David Rolf
“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.” PeopleTryingSometimesGovernmentWantedMy OwnPerfectEconomyPolicyModelsOrdinaryReflectionComplexesConservativeStuckNarrativeOfficialsCategoriesForeign PolicyCanvasStereotypeFree MarketOrdinary PeopleContradictoryInadequateAmbiguousMarketersElected Officials Author:Barack Obama
“Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and from all walks of life, that we are destroying the ocean at such an alarming rate that we can't wait for a systematic solution. We can't wait for our political leadership to warm up to the idea, and we can't wait for the free market to find alternatives. We must act as individuals, now.” PeopleTryingIdeasAgePoliticalIndividualWaitingWalksOceanSolutionsRateWarmNewspapersComicAlternativesDestroyingFilmmakingFree MarketPublic SpeakingSystematicWalks Of LifeComic StripsPolitical Leadership Author:Jim Toomey
“I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.” ThinkingCoursesNationsBenefitsModelsTradeEnormousOpennessFree Market Author:Enrique Pena Nieto
“I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.” WholeFightingPrinciplesConstitutionWhole LifeFree Market Author:Ted Cruz
“We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveMeanIdeasJobsYoungHalfLibertyRepublicanSocialismHorribleGood IdeasFree MarketMarketersHorrible Jobs Author:Ted Cruz
“The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.” PeopleShouldCountryHardStatesRealityIndividualEasyInterestLibertyPrinciplesDemocracyRightsOrdinaryPressesPrioritiesFree MarketOrdinary PeopleCivil LibertiesBasic PrinciplesFree Press Author:Vladimir Putin
“The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.” HumansDecisionMillionsPlansResourcesAdvantageLaborDeterminedBrilliantMakersFree MarketIngenuityPlannersDecision Makers Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.” WorldPoliticianSpeechGrainFree Market Author:Dwayne Andreas
“One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.” YearsStatesReasonNaturalUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesHappenedPolicyGasCarbonCoalFree MarketReducingEmissionsCarbon DioxideNatural Gas Author:Chris Mooney
“Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of wind and solar in places like Africa. These things are going to happen no matter what. They're going to happen for largely non-policy free market reasons even in the United States.” WorldMatterStatesReasonBigsHappensEnergyUnitedUnited StatesSeeingPolicyWindHugeNo Matter WhatTrendsFree MarketRenewable EnergyInstallation Author:Chris Mooney
“David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They are far right libertarians, very anti-government, very pro-business, very anti-tax, anti-regulatory, in favour of free markets ruling the day.” GovernmentFallTaxesLibertarianFavourRulingFree MarketSpectrumIdeologicalFalling OffAnti Government Author:Jane Mayer
“I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.” PeopleKnowsWantRepublicanConservativeLike MeFree Market Author:Daniel Garza
“The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.” EconomyDemocracyCoreFree MarketMarket EconomyPublic Trust Author:Hillary Clinton
“I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.” WorldBigsSchoolJobsEnvironmentPlansEconomicMiddleDiseaseEastAround The WorldAccountabilityMiddle EastFree MarketPromotingPublic SchoolMarketplaceAdvocating Author:George W. Bush
“This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what they're talking about. Their motives are not necessarily good just because they say they are being good. It's peace, love, and understanding. To which I can just say, "Shut up." Human liberty, rule of law, and free markets fix this stuff. It isn't necessary to go around being the Mia Farrow of the ecosphere.” PeopleKnowsHumansI CanLawStuffUnderstandingTalkingLibertyEconomyTerribleBe GoodMotiveCrapShut UpCarbonFree MarketRule Of LawPeace LoveMia Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.” IfsIdeasDegreesEconomicsGood IdeasFree MarketDogmatic Author:Jay Roach
“In the States, I think, the syllogism goes like this: 'free markets solve all problems. Free markets aren't solving global warming, QED global warming is not a problem'. It's not a very good syllogism but it's emotionally comforting if you're in that world.” IfsThinkingWorldStatesProblemVery GoodSolveGlobal WarmingFree MarketComfortingProblem Free Author:Bill McKibben
“It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.” PeopleBelieveCountryI BelievePresidentChanceWonderDyingSakePrivilegeFormerWorriedFree MarketInfluentialFree SocietyPeople Dying Author:George W. Bush
“These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.” GuyFree MarketCrooksIdeologues Author:John Cusack
“These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.” PeopleWayNeedsLevelsPayExtraordinaryIllegalImmoralFree MarketRacket Author:John Cusack
“Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.” WarMatterRealityGovernmentPresidentGrewWorshipPostsOpponentsStrongestFree MarketPost War Author:Noam Chomsky
“Racial, globalist free markets hasn't worked for everybody in America - hasn't worked for at least the white working, or lower middle class in America don't perceive that it has worked very well for them. It hasn't served everybody, and a bit of protectionism - for many American voters - seems like quite an attractive thing.” WellsSeemsAmericaBitsWhiteClassMiddlePerceiveAttractiveMiddle ClassVotersFree MarketProtectionismAmerican VotersAttractive Things Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“That's not for me to decide, that's for the voters to decide and many of them are saying, this slavish adherence to the cult of the free market that the Republican party has followed for decades isn't what we want anymore. That's not a question for me, that's up to them.” WantPartyRepublicanDecadesVotersCultRepublican PartyFree MarketAdherence Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.” PeopleWorldFactsTodayCoursesNationsRolesDemocracyGrowingChangedPerceptionIndiaAffairFree MarketWorld TodayWorld Affairs Author:Kabir Bedi
“There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.” PeopleMenDreamLimitsAccomplishEnterpriseFree MarketFree ManFree EnterpriseFree Market Capitalism Author:Jack Kemp
“Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.” WorldOpeningGlobalizationFree MarketMarketplace Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Pat Buchanan has emerged as the prophet and forerunner of a real economic nationalism on the right, and Donald Trump is now its tribune. This is not movement ideology which is all about limited government, the power of free markets and also internationally - globalism.” RealGovernmentEconomicMovementTrumpIdeologyProphetNationalismFree MarketLimited GovernmentGlobalismForerunners Author:Sam Tanenhaus
“I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.” WayWritingBookLastsDealsMonthsEconomicsInnocentProgressiveFraudFree MarketWriting A BookJanuaryInterruptedCover Ups Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.” BelieveMayDoeStatesProblemDiesGrowsRolesConcentrationFree MarketTotalitarianismRivalryCorporatism Author:Murray Bookchin
“I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It's the worst system except for any other. And I think that's right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view.” ThinkingBeliefLevelsViewsVirtueDemocracyWorstCapitalismPoint Of ViewCuresEfficiencyDistributionFree MarketFlawed Author:Kenneth Arrow
“The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free markets. But we're not sensitive to what that does to other people who don't have our privilege.” PeopleDoeJobsMorningWake UpUniversityPrivilegeSensitiveFree MarketColumnistsStanfordStanford UniversityOutsourced Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.” GivingHumansWarRealCountryStatesEnoughAmericaJusticeUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyRightsResourcesThreatHuman RightsImpressionLoudIranLatinFree MarketLatin AmericaChile Author:Arundhati Roy
“Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.” PeopleHas BeensStatesTodayLeftLanguageUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomyRevolutionTragedyUnionsIraqChinaRussiaKneesIranCommunistAfghanistanVietnamCapitalistSocialistWorking ClassDiscourseRuinedFree MarketGreeceIndonesiaCubaCapitalist Economy Author:Arundhati Roy
“Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.” IfsShouldMeanHas BeensEyeChoicesEnergyDemocracyTakenIntellectualVoteBallsInstitutionsCorporationsVehicleFree MarketWorkshopsOur Choices Author:Arundhati Roy
“In the long run we are all dead.” LongRunningFunnyDeathEconomicDyingEconomicsStatisticsDeath And DyingLong RunsShallowEconomistFree MarketMisleadImpermanenceDying DeathSomeone DyingProdigal SonDying LoveCurrent AffairsFuture PlanningSupply Side Economics Author:John Maynard Keynes
“If you don't want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don't have to. If you don't want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it's your choice. It's called freedom. It's called free market health care.” IfsWantUseCareChoicesPlansTaxesCreditHealth CareFree Market Author:Paul Ryan
“Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.” ModelsDrivenSocialismAlternativesWelfareCollapseFree MarketShiftingGreat DepressionVariables Author:Richard A. Falk
“The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.” HumansQualityClassRightsSecurityBalanceCapitalismAccountsThreatDemocraticHuman RightsWorking ClassFree MarketEntrepreneurialVariablesWartimeIncompatibilityFree Market Capitalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a provided this commercial law that is independent from the state.” KnowsFirstsDoeStatesLawIndependentIslamIdeologyFree MarketMedieval Author:David Graeber
“There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts weren't, except on trust. So they have this free market ideology the moment they have markets operating outside the purview of the states, as prior to that markets had really mainly existed as a side effect of military operations.” WayStatesMomentsGovernmentLawSidesEffectsMilitaryIdeologyOperationsContractsFree MarketIndonesiaExtendingSide EffectsMilitary OperationsMali Author:David Graeber
“Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.” CapitalismEssenceProfitMotiveFree WillFree MarketProfit Motive Author:Muhammad Yunus
“This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.” PeopleWorldWarColdTradeExtraordinaryProsperityProtectionWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarFree MarketFree Trade Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Business success is not determined by government policy. It's not determined by regulation. The people succeed in business have to overcome all the obstacles put in their way by people like Democrats and Obama. That's what Trump knows, how to overcome these guys, how to get the things they put in his way out of the way, while they don't even know it's happening. And that would go for much of the political commentariat, too, folks, that are totally immersed in politics and know nothing else, other than they swear allegiance to free markets, but that's about it.” PeoplePoliticalGuyPolicySucceedOvercomingDemocratObstaclesDeterminedSwearFree Market Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the regime insists that it's a choice between food and liberty, a false choice. But increasing affluence will inevitably result in political pressure.” CountryPoliticalChoicesPoorLibertyDictatorshipFree Market Author:Garry Kasparov
“The fundamental purpose of Marxism is the total control of a population under the belief that individualism and free markets lead to great disparities and inequalities and injustices and unfairness. Now, this is the outward appeal. Marxism is evil, and Marx knew it, but the appeal that seduces people is its justice and equality and fairness. What they don't tell you is the equality is spread equally to the point everybody's miserably equal and miserably the same.” PeoplePurposeEvilBeliefJusticeEqualInjusticeSpreadInequalityIndividualismFairnessFree MarketMarxismSeducingUnfairness Author:Rush Limbaugh