Kim Campbell Quotes

Government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

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

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.

I'm a big free-market individual.

It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I do believe in the free market.

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

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

People create jobs, not the government.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.