David Puttnam Quotes

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

There is no pure free-market economy.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

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

It’s hard to be a fan of the free market these days when the free market has just driven the economy over the cliff.

Restrict the right of the rich to buy up any anything and everything, and then to exercise a kind of monopoly.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

The capitalist free market is a marvelous servant but a disastrous master. In one of the greatest achievements of the second half of this [the 20th] century, a few favored societies learned to convert it from master to servant. The danger now is that a smug and vainglorious capitalism will not remember the lesson.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'

My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.

I've made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.

We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive - undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.