William Kennard Quotes

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

I am firmly opposed to the Government entering any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens.

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

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

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

The best industrial policy is competition.

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

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

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.

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

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested…. Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

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

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

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

There is no pure free-market economy.

The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.