Bill de Blasio Quotes

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

It should not be the government running the economy.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

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

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope of government - get government out of the business.

I believe you can divide the people in to two basic groups, those who believe government is a necessary good and those who believe it is a necessary evil, those who want government to take care of them, those who want government to leave them alone.

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.