George F. Will Quotes

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

I believe in markets before mandates.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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

I do believe in the free market.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

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.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

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

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

I support social market economy. But it only works if there is fair competition.

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

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.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.