John McCain Quotes

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

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

The land of the capitalists…

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

Of course, America's free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

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.