Mike Pompeo Quotes

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

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 tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

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

As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party.

Conservatives should never be shy in promoting a strong case for individual enterprise. We should acknowledge where the system doesn't work, and seek to amend it.

It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I do believe in the free market.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

The Government must get out of the "protective" business and the "subsidy" business and the "improvement" and the "development" business. It must let trade, and commerce, and manufactures, and steamboats, and railroads and telegraphs alone. It cannot touch them without breeding corruption.