Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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

It should not be the government running the economy.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

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

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

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

We should rely on the markets to move on their own.

I believe in markets before mandates.

… governments must serve capitalism by establishing and maintain a framework which enables capitalism to develop. It can induce it to grow, but cannot command it to do so.

The appropriate role of government is to provide the framework that allows capital to flow freely, in accord with the law of supply and demand. That is how jobs, businesses and wealth are created. The government would have no money to distribute or spend without the tax revenue generated from the jobs and businesses that are the fruit of our capitalist system.

As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

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.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.

The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

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

We cannot separate politics from economics.