Quotes About Intervention

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

If government were a plant, it would be kudzu.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.