Peter L. Berger Quotes

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.

Free markets tend to promote democracy.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

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

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

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.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

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

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

I do believe in the free market.

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

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

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

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.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.