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"I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism."

"I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child."

"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."

"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."

"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."
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"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."

"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."

"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."

"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."

"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."

"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."

"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."

"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."

"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
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