Dave Brat Quotes

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Free markets tend to promote democracy.

Do we want the Asiatic model—which is corrupt but works as long as you have a dictator who is active? Or do we want the democratic market model—which works, but only with transparency or reliability.

Democracy and economic reform go together.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.