Hillary Clinton Quotes

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.

More and more it is evident that the State and if necessary the Nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

I have publicly talked about Mexico's need to open ourselves up to the participation of the private sector in the energy sector, however this doesn't mean privatizing state-run companies.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

The line between what government does and what a company does is getting blurred.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country

It's very important that the government is close to the business community and that we understand their concerns. But at some point, the government needs to be a government.

I do not like government-sponsored enterprises.

Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.

The first is determining how to deal with the great industrial combinations is knowledge of the facts—publicity.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

In 10 years, ... you're going to see the most valuable economy in the world -- the largest economy in the world -- is going to be a country run by communists. The Chinese seem to be very good at capitalism. And this is going to have fundamental problems and present an identity crisis for the United States. Because for a long time, free markets coincided with liberties such as free speech, free press, free religion. And all of a sudden, this equation is going to be decoupled. And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies. And this is a very unique thing in the American experience. And this is why it's very important to think of American capitalism as an operating system and not as an ideology. Because when you think about it as an ideology, you can have good politics make for very, very bad policy. That market outcomes and democratic voices and battles for votes can end up stifling progress.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.

The government needs to work to improve how markets perform.