Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

The market economy does not automatically guarantee growth, social justice, or even economic efficiency; achieving those ends requires that government play an important role.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.

free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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 vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

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

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

We shall either adopt a plan which will meet the problem of unemployment under capitalism or a plan will be adopted for us which will operate without capitalism.