John Sherman Quotes

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Effective competition requires that traders have large freedom of action when conducting their own affairs.

The time has come when the Executive branch of this Government must enforce the plain letter of the law and check monopoly, or it must turn the people over boldly into the hands of exploiters grown impudent and ruthlessly aggressive through long years of wanton violation of the law.

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

Any government intrusion into the economy deters the alleged beneficiaries from voicing their views or participating in civic life.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free market and some regulations which are essential in order to safeguard the interests of consumers and of people in general.

I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Our system of market capitalism wasn't handed down, in perfect form, on stone tablets. We wrote the rules. We broke them. And we can fix them.

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued that policies embraced by a majority of Americans to promote equality of opportunity actually infringe liberty by hampering businessmen's actions or taking their money through taxes.

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.