Paul Samuelson Quotes

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers. Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Politicians always interfere with what other professions are doing

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, you have corruption and failure.

Baseball is a poorly run business.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.