Marine Le Pen Quotes

I believe in nationalizing those public necessities which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals. By these I mean banking, credit and currency, power, light, oil and natural gas and our God-given natural resources.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

That industries like coal and electric power, transport and banking, the supply of meat and the provision of houses, should be left to the hazards of private enterprise will appear as unthinkable to a future generation as it is unthinkable to our own that the army of the State should be left to private hands.... That does not mean direct operation by government .... It means the planning of constitutions for essential industries.

…society in a modern democracy will not permit unregulated control over production and sale of its necessities.

Don’t look down over here Clement. Whenever you see something large, private and working well, you want to nationalize it.

While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.

There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.

Government cannot substitute for a healthy private sector, and both need a strong civil society.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

The common good may sometimes demand that the right to own be limited by public involvement in the planning or ownership of certain sectors of the economy.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

The government’s role is to motivate the private sector, to assure that it performs in a way which serves the public interest.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum and for determining the “rules of the game”.

In a mixed economy the public sector remains constrained by the overarching requirement of maintaining an efficient and profitable private sector.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

Capitalist, democratic states put the emphasis on the private sector, which doesn't always deliver on social goods.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise indeed became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise

When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business it must at once set up the organization and administration of that business, and it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth, every alley of which leads to the destruction of self government.

Economic sectors which are essential for the country and which affect the life of the people, must be controlled by the state. Otherwise the control of production might fall in the hands of powerful individuals who could exploit the people. Hence, only enterprises which do not affect the life of the general population may be left to private individuals…. The land, the waters and the natural resources therein are basic assets for the people's prosperity and should, therefore, be controlled by the state and exploited to the greatest benefit of the people.

Free competition and the open market system as they were known in the old days, have lost their places in the system, and that the only substitute for them, in these modern times, is government regulation and control.

The private sector can only be a supplement to the state and collective sectors, and it can never predominate.

I believe in municipal ownership of all public service monopolies for the same reason that I believe in the municipal ownership of waterworks, of parks, of schools. I believe in the municipal ownership of these monopolies because if you do not own them, they will own you. They will rule your politics, corrupt your institutions, and finally destroy your liberties.

Governments are not like a business. They don’t look like a business, work like a business, think like a business, and they don’t have a bottom line.

All government is intended for the benefit of the people.