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If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments do it, so there is an onus on us to show there are other stories and to identify the institutional innovations you might need in order to arrive at this other place.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.