Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Friedman

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves

Milton Friedman

If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.

Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Milton Friedman

I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government. And that's close to 40 percent of our national income.

Milton Friedman

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

Milton Friedman

The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

Milton Friedman

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.

Milton Friedman

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

Milton Friedman

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.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.

Milton Friedman

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plan.

Milton Friedman

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

Milton Friedman

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

Milton Friedman

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Mike DeWine

In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government to sit down and say, 'Well, let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.' That would have been the farthest thing from their mind," however, I fear that the Supreme Court forgets this advice.

Nathan Deal

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

Muqtada al Sadr

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Muqtada al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Kathleen Wynne

I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.

Julian Assange

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Keith O'Brien

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

Katsuya Okada

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

It's possible for government to take your property tomorrow, and you won't be able to do a thing about it.

It's my intent to grant some relief to the government.

The Nigerian government has been saying that the whole time. This is an ongoing thing. ... Until we see something really moving, I would have to think that's not true.

The notion that the government knows better how to improve on a competitive marketplace is not supported by the evidence.

That hurdle is a big deal, ... This is a party that supports Governor Pataki.

Jacob Lew

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

It's solid, old-fashioned Republicanism. Less government intrusion, less government in-your-face.

Liam Fox

It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists.

It's not a priority for the government right now.