Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.
There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.
We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.
