Cory Booker Quotes

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

Our system of market capitalism wasn't handed down, in perfect form, on stone tablets. We wrote the rules. We broke them. And we can fix them.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

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

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.

The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States, in my opinion, have been, on the one hand, my fellow intellectuals and, on the other hand, the business corporations of this country. They are enemies for opposite reasons.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

I believe in capitalism but in fair capitalism.

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The labor union in enforcing a high scale of wages brings about the distribution of wealth throughout the entire community.

As liberty can never subsist without equality, nor equality be long preserved without an agrarian law, or something like it; so when men’s riches are become immeasurably or surprisingly great, a people, who regard their own security, ought to make a strict enquiry how they came by them, and oblige them to take down their own size, for fear of terrifying the community, or mastering it.

We have to stop allowing economics to be used as a trump card. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Capitalism with airbags—the type of capitalism I am a fan of.