Privatization Quotes

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

Big corporations are all to be nationalized.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

That’s right Clement. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.

With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

The era of big government is over.

Government after government has prioritized the preservation of corporatist loyalties over the promotion of economic growth and emphasized clientelist distribution over entrepreneurial innovation and creation of level economic playing field.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

How does a government reduce expenditures? To be absolutely flat about it, 99 per cent of it is accomplished by putting people out of work. Now that is a tough way to say it, but it is a fact.

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

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

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.