Crony Quotes

#1. Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

Paul Ryan

#2. Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.

Kliment Voroshilov

#3. Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Alan Greenspan

#4. Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

Charles Koch

#5. I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.

Dave Brat

#6. If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

Charles Krauthammer

#7. But business in a crony-capitalist society is the craft of sharks.

Pierce Brown

#8. Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

Rupert Murdoch

#9. The newspaper publisher who hangs around clubs or becomes a crony to sundry businessmen cannot run a good newspaper.

Dennis McDougal

#10. Rent-seeking crony capitalism with a strong incumbency bias. If we had a good

Brink Lindsey

#11. None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody -
a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns -
bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

#12. The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

#13. Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

Alan Greenspan

#14. No one is safe from Mattera's hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.

Monica Crowley

#15. The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#17. I am against government by crony.

Harold L. Ickes

#18. What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. 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.

#20. I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

John Brown

#21. People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#22. Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

Carly Fiorina

#23. We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

Gary Johnson

#24. Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

#25. By now you've noticed that Woolf says "I don't know" quite a lot. "Killing

Rebecca Solnit

#26. Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

Larry McMurtry

#27. I have made myself more complicated than I really am.

Nick Hornby

#28. Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

Tadashi Yanai

#29. Although there are many trial marriages ... there is no such thing as a trial child.

Gail Sheehy

#30. In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present.

Thomas L. Friedman

#31. Owls are keepers of the dead, but not just the dead. They're messengers between worlds.

Diana Gabaldon

#32. When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

Rebecca Eaton

#33. For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Joshua Jackson

#34. I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

James Dobson

#35. The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Roger Goodell

#36. It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Sophocles

#37. Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Miguel De Cervantes

#38. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo Da Vinci