Dee Rees Quotes

It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector.

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

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

Nothing beats Reaganomics—though herpes can run it pretty close.

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

We cannot separate politics from economics.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

… 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.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.

The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.

To see off Corbyn's Labour, we need to start the debate as to how and why a market economy is the way to deliver prosperity, social mobility, fully funded public services, and the means to address their concerns about the environment and social justice.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

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

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

It should not be the government running the economy.

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.