Dave Brat Quotes

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

Our belief in free markets and a level playing field are values that make the world more free, fair, and prosperous.

I like free markets, I like competition.

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.

I believe in markets before mandates.

Competition—ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition—is a crucial feature of capitalism.

It's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it comes to setting the rules or creating the institutions, then you should have the general interest at heart.

Markets, when left to themselves, can sort of slip into being just the private property of big businesses and cartels, meeting the needs of some businesses and not the needs of customers.

Free markets are amazing.

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

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.

There is no friendship in trade.

Capitalism works.

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

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

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

There is no pure free-market economy.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

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