Lars Lokke Rasmussen Quotes

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

I do believe in the free market.

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

I believe in the free enterprise system.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Capitalism works.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.