Mart Laar Quotes

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

Milton Friedman is a man with dangerously simplistic visions and explanations of the economic world.

I'm a big fan of economist Milton Freidman.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" Reagan wondered. "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this

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

Mrs Thatcher was a mirror-image Marxist. Everything that Marx abhorred she thought was good