Denise Dresser Quotes

Government after government has prioritized the preservation of corporatist loyalties over the promotion of economic growth and emphasized clientelist distribution over entrepreneurial innovation and creation of level economic playing field.

In every developing country, even developed ones, vested interests prevent sectors from being reformed.

It was the use of public policy to create economics that favored the big players. There were only a handful of channels. And only some people were going to get them and become fabulously wealthy.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people.

Most regulation of trade is by artful men for private advantage under the pretense of public good

We are against crony capitalism.

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I'm sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

The only place you have real monopolies is where government provides them.

Big business does not want honest government.

[Monopolies are:] ... the bane of our body politic at the present day.

As government grows bigger and more directly involved in the economy, the question of who gets what, through the medium of the lobbyist as broker, is of paramount importance.