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• I’ve never been antiregulation. I’ve always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn’t work.

  Henry Paulson

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• Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

  Jasper Fforde

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• If a person has no conscience, it’s called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it’s called capitalism.

  Quentin R. Bufogle

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• Capitalism only works well when it has a strong opposition, because that forces it to be more egalitarian than it wants to be.

  Paul Sweezy

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• The government may change faces from time to time, but it’s not like we fight wars for democracy – we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

  Woody Harrelson

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• The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics.

  R. Alan Woods

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• We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

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• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.

  John Maynard Keynes

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• Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

  James Surowiecki

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• A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that cost and risk are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free enterprises and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• Capitalism works.

  Michael Bloomberg

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• We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

  Sigmar Gabriel

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• Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

  Andrew Lo

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• What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

  Ken MacLeod

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• Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

  Serj Tankian

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• Obama’s capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

  Sarah Palin

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