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“No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.”

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Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”

“The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.”

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Author:Jerry Brown

“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.”

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Author:John Stossel

“There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.”

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Book:What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

Source: What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

“The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.”

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Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal