Donald Sassoon Quotes

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

I believe in capitalism but in fair capitalism.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly.

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

The market economy does not automatically guarantee growth, social justice, or even economic efficiency; achieving those ends requires that government play an important role.

Support of private ownership does not mean that anyone has the right to unlimited accumulation of wealth

It was once supposed that only the rich were entitled to luxury. Now we are beginning to see that participation in the benefits of the machine civilization must be as widespread as possible if any group is to have prosperity.

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power, the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority.