Richard Shelby Quotes

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.

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

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

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

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

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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.

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

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

Big corporations are all to be nationalized.

Don’t look down over here Clement. Whenever you see something large, private and working well, you want to nationalize it.

No less than 50 percent of the means of production must be in the hands of the state.

The government playing entrepreneur is not a good role for the government.

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

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

I believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.

Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we'll give it.

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

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.