Glenn Reynolds Quotes

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

The state can destroy families, but it can rarely save families.

Just because there is a market failure, doesn’t mean there is a government solution.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

It should not be the government running the economy.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The government is already into our lives a whole lot more than they should be. If I were president, I'd roll everything back. Everything!

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

The statists want to control the economy.