Tom Scholz Quotes

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

Capitalism is very unfair but it is the only system that works.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

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.

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.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

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.

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

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

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

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

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

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.

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.