Reince Priebus Quotes

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by a free market, but by government intervention into the economy.

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business it must at once set up the organization and administration of that business, and it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth, every alley of which leads to the destruction of self government.

If you think that government regulators are going to outwit the market, you've got a Jurassic Park fantasy.

Just because there is a market failure, doesn’t mean there is a government solution.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.

These folks talk about a free market, but they couldn’t exist without taxpayer dollars.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.