Boris Yeltsin Quotes

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed choice, about many bad alternatives

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.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Capitalism is not an orgy of human villainy: it is a Utopia that has dazzled and misled very amiable and public spirited men.

Capitalism still wants to beat socialism in the end.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

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

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

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.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I do believe in the free market.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.