John Delaney Quotes

Capitalism with airbags—the type of capitalism I am a fan of.

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

A highly efficient and profitable capitalist system would make possible a welfare state, redistribution of income and greater social opportunities for all..

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

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

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees.