Lawrence Kudlow Quotes

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.

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

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Free markets tend to promote democracy.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

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

We need to move back toward a free market.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

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

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

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

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

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

I do believe in the free market.

Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.