Zhao Ziyang Quotes

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.

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

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

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.

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

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Since the start of the Thatcher economic and fiscal reforms the U.K. economy has expanded five-fold.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

It should not be the government running the economy.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

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

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

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.

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.