“As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.” IfsNeedsGovernmentJobsFacesChallengesEconomyToughDifficultyIdeologyFree MarketSmall GovernmentTough Questions Author:Lucy Powell
“Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.” ReasonGovernmentPoliticalResultsFree MarketStimulus Author:Reince Priebus
“It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.” PeopleGovernmentMillionsConditionsSeriousLifetimeIllnessAccidentsEnormousDenialGapsFree MarketCapsCoverageBankruptcySerious Illness Author:Paul Waldman
“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.” PeopleWayGovernmentClearRecordsActivityOrdinaryCapitalismInvestingAlternativesEnterpriseProductiveCandleImprovingFree MarketOrdinary PeopleCrystalsTrue HappinessFree EnterpriseUnleashed Author:Milton Friedman
“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” GovernmentLiteraturePaintingIndustryCivilizationCapitalismArchitectureAgricultureFree MarketSustainable AgricultureCentralized Government Author:Milton Friedman
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” WorldWaySelfGovernmentRunningOrderIndividualInterestTheoryIndustryCivilizationAchievementCapitalismConstructsFree MarketSelf InterestAutomobileBureaucratsGreat AchievementAutomobile Industry Author:Milton Friedman
“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” PeopleWayGovernmentBlackFreedomEconomyEconomicsOpeningWorking ItFree MarketEnablingOpening UpMarket EconomyFree Market Capitalism Author:Milton Friedman
“From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.” Has BeensGovernmentAmericaNationsTechnologyInformationRepublicanComputerUniqueCapitalismAirplaneFree MarketInformation TechnologyRepublican GovernmentFree Market Capitalism Author:George Nethercutt
“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.” PeopleNeedsBelieveGovernmentJobsProtectLawyerConsumersFree MarketInterventionMarketplaceProtectorRegulators Author:John Stossel
“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenShouldDifferentPhilosophyUseGovernmentEvilIndividualWhiteMillionsRightsStupidProgramMurderAssumingInternationalFavorsDamnGasRepublicGenocideAggressionSocialistInterfereNaziRestraintWhite ManFree MarketScopeChamberThumbsAtheisticAdvocatingIndividual RightsGas Chambers Author:Jonah Goldberg
“I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.” IfsWantBelieveGovernmentAsksI BelieveAnswersHonestlyChiefsExecutivesNot InterestedPreferenceFree MarketMonopolySubsidiesChief ExecutivesGoldman Sachs Author:Ian Bremmer
“One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.” EndsHelpingHandsGovernmentLeftProcessLosesClassShareStupidProductsDemandSellsGreat ThingsChainsDevicesYieldWeedSmarterFree MarketMarketplaceRelentlessLiberatedInterferenceParticipantsBenevolentFood ChainSupply And Demand Author:Edward Britton