James Edward Hanson Quotes

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

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

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'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

The Government must get out of the "protective" business and the "subsidy" business and the "improvement" and the "development" business. It must let trade, and commerce, and manufactures, and steamboats, and railroads and telegraphs alone. It cannot touch them without breeding corruption.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

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.

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interest of the society.

So long as we maintain a substantial private sector, therefore socialists must logically applaud the accumulation of private profit.

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.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

It should not be the government running the economy.

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

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