Marco Rubio Quotes

I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

… the rules of big business … have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you: and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation”

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

The Republican Party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts.

It was the use of public policy to create economics that favored the big players. There were only a handful of channels. And only some people were going to get them and become fabulously wealthy.

Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

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

Big business does not want honest government.

I don't want to see this country run by big business and big labor.

The Department of State has become a concession hunting agency for the Standard Oil Company

Our nation’s history can be seen as an enduring civil war over whether Big Government of Big Business is the primary enemy of the people.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

Free markets were supposed to lead to free societies. Instead, today’s supercharged global economy is eroding the power of the people in democracies around the globe. Welcome to a world where the bottom line trumps the common good and government takes a back seat to big business.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country