Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes About Free Market

Quotes about: Free Market

• You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Cat, Discipline, Political

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Episode 2". "Climate One" with Greg Dalton, www.prx.org.

• Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government... They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Running, Country, Government

• We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Differences, America

  "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.

• In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Community, Rich, Economy

  "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.

• What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Escaping, Discipline, Quality

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

• I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Cheating, Environmentalist, Free Market

• Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Land, America, Air

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