Maxime Bernier Quotes

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

The best industrial policy is competition.

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

Our prosperity comes from something that is really marvellous—that is unlimited freedom.

In today’s world, a government that controls a vast tract of territory may be less relevant than one that supports education and embraces a regulatory framework promoting innovation and investment.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalistic environment.

Economic developments made modern democracy possible.

Africa has failed to develop because, our leaders opted for socialism and. short-sighted policies of seizing...private business wrecked economies by chasing off investors while taking away incentives for local business to flourish

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

The Government must get out of the "protective" business and the "subsidy" business and the "improvement" and the "development" business. It must let trade, and commerce, and manufactures, and steamboats, and railroads and telegraphs alone. It cannot touch them without breeding corruption.

The key to economic development is less in government aid, but in having a climate that will attract private capital….Free market development is the key to economic prosperity in the world.

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

Ideas are what power our economy.

… 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.