Rick Santorum Quotes

There are a lot of people who say they believe in free enterprise but what they really mean is government-funded free enterprise.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

I do believe in the free market.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

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

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

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.

We need to move back toward a free market.

As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party.

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.