Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.

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.

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.

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.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

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.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

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

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

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces

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.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

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

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.