Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

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

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

I do believe in the free market.

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 historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

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

I'm a big free-market individual.

We need to move back toward a free market.

I'm a very free market guy.

I believe in our free market system.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Competition is good and has served us well.

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

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

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

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

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

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

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.