Erik Prince Quotes

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

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.

We are on the our way to a free market economy. Regardless of the mistakes and omissions, the government has managed to implement a firm and consistent economic policy. Regardless of how incomplete it still is, the transition to free market relations and democracy has become irreversible.

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.

I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses