Abdoulaye Wade Quotes

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.

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.

The doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

It should not be the government running the economy.

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

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

The Kochs, like many other hard-right conservatives, redefine "socialism" as almost any form of government which taxes citizens and regulates businesses.

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.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

I believe in markets before mandates.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.

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.

As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.

The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

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

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

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.

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.