Thomas Friedman Quotes

We need to move back toward a free market.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

I do believe in the free market.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

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

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.