Emmanuel Macron Quotes

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

We want free markets, but the markets are not going to take care of themselves in all cases.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

We absolutely have to do more in government. But we have to bring the people along. Yet we are facing a well-armed neoliberal propaganda lobby that is promoting the notion that the market, however big the corporate players, should get bigger and government has to get smaller and smaller.

Deregulation played virtually no role

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself... Everyone understands now, on the contrary, that there can be no solution without government.

I believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.

I think government actually does create jobs.

We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

I've made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.