"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
― Milton Friedman
Topic(s):
Government
More From Milton Friedman
- "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
- "A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
- "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
More In Government
- "It’s horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn’t bring them the happiness they think it will."― Miuccia Prada
- "Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were."― Russell Baker
- "Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes."― George W. Bush