Politics Quotes

"Banking systems can serve either the community or the elite, not both equally."

"Economic policy is never neutral; it always favors someone."

"Economic policy reflecting only the interests of business is a betrayal of democratic promise."

"Property rights are essential to social order."

"The best laws are those that promote virtue."

"Politics without principle is merely the pursuit of power."

"The most important change in the Chinese economy over the past decade has been the movement toward more market-oriented policies and less government control."

"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."

"You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state."

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work."

"Prohibitions are easier to institute than to abolish."

"What we call unemployment is a feature of our system, not a bug."

"The worst thing you can do to an idea is to make it a policy of the government."

"The question is not whether government should act, but how and to what extent."

"Whenever the government expands its power, it's always claimed to be for a good purpose."

"Open immigration would be the most effective anti-poverty program we could have."

"When you have a large bureaucracy, its primary function becomes perpetuating itself."

"Regulation of industry is the best way to ensure that the largest firms maintain their dominance."

"You cannot have a dynamic economy with detailed government planning."

"The problem is not that government does bad things; it's that government does things period."

"The costs of government programs are always higher than anticipated because bureaucracies expand to fill the space available."

"Government programs designed to help the poor often end up harming them by reducing incentives to work."

"The belief that government can solve problems through force is the root of most political mischief."

"Government is the arena where organized violence is concentrated."

"A nation that allows too much debt will find itself enslaved by that debt."

"Monetary policy affects not just prices but employment and social welfare."

"Socialism will eventually fail not because it is immoral, but because it is economically impossible."

"The politician promises; the entrepreneur delivers. Choose whom you follow carefully."

"The fundamental problem of capitalism is not the distribution of wealth but the distribution of power."

"The gap between rich and poor is not a natural law but a consequence of political choices."