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  • The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

    Jobs   Thinking   People  
    "Exclusive Interview with Steve Stivers, Challenger of OH-15". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 9, 2010.
  • Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.

    Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.425, Random House
  • It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

    Military   Heart   World  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today.

  • It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

  • The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.

    Law   Land   Ignorant  
    "Fascism and The Workers’ Movement". The Militant, www.marxists.org. March-April 1954.
  • Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

    Careers   Excess   Pounds  
  • At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

    Needs   Profit   Stage  
    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

    Funny   Work   Sarcasm  
    Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins
  • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

    Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”
  • The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

  • I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

    Boys   Cities   Oil  
    Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

    "The crowd is smarter than you think". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.
  • We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  • American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

    Sergei Eisenstein (1964). “Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense”
  • It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

    Law   Support   Wages  
  • This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  • ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  • American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

  • In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

    FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 27, 2012
  • The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

    "What?! Ex-Congressman Barney Frank Endures Tough Interview...on National Public Radio!" by Jack Coleman, www.newsbusters.org. November 22, 2016.
  • Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

    Running   Real   Self  
  • The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”
  • I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

    "Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 22, 2010.
  • Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

  • Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

    Cities   Chicago   Modern  
    "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.
  • Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

    Military   Heart   People  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?

    "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.
  • There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

    "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.
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