Ibrahim Rugova Quotes

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

We will never have Russian-style privatization.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

We are on the our way to a free market economy. Regardless of the mistakes and omissions, the government has managed to implement a firm and consistent economic policy. Regardless of how incomplete it still is, the transition to free market relations and democracy has become irreversible.

Mexico is a market economy, but we should have better markets.

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

There is no legislation—I care not what it is—tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis …

We saw that the free market economy was not enough when the Harvard boys failed to deliver free market capitalism to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

Democracy and economic reform go together.

In post-communist countries, some temporary winners of the reform are found to be an important force in resisting further reforms.

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put the brakes on government planning and ushered in a new free-market supply-side era and a two-decade boom. That model has been abandoned in the new century. This must be reversed.

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

Someone in Washington needs to get serious about fixing the tax code. That is what needs to happen.

I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

Auctioning of natural resources such as spectrum, coal, oilfields, and land for commercial exploitation can largely substitute for tax impositions.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.