There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. Bertrand Russell
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. Ludwig von Mises
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil. Peter Drucker
I am for the state only doing what people are unable to do in the absence of government action. Walter Reuther
There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action. Eli Pariser
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. Mark Zandi