Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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.

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.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

We need to privatize whenever possible.

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

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward 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.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

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

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

The private sector can only be a supplement to the state and collective sectors, and it can never predominate.

Only in America are business and government enemies.

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

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

The left and right have been as bad as each other. The left has allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government to obscure the importance of civil society. The right has been so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

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

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.