Quotes About Intervention

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

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

Government planning always involves compulsion.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.