Richard Hatfield Quotes

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

Some communist countries think that free enterprise will save them the same way that they thought communism would save them.

There are a lot of people who say they believe in free enterprise but what they really mean is government-funded free enterprise.

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

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

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed choice, about many bad alternatives

I'm a very free market guy.

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.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

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

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

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

I do believe in the free market.

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

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

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

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

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

Capitalism is not an orgy of human villainy: it is a Utopia that has dazzled and misled very amiable and public spirited men.

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.