Liz Truss Quotes

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

I do believe in the free market.

Capitalism works.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

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

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

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.

I know that some people in the U.S. associate the nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

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.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

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.

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