18 Dave Brat Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dave Brat

American Economist

Born: Jul 27, 1964

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Related authors: Alan Greenspan Herbert A. Simon John Kenneth Galbraith Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Richard Thaler Robert Reich Thomas Sowell

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule. Dave Brat

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Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business. Dave Brat

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I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique. Dave Brat

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I'm not anti-Wall Street - I'm anti-distortions to free markets. Dave Brat

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In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets, adherence to the Constitution, and equal treatment for everyone under the law. Dave Brat

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I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable. Dave Brat

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If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries. Dave Brat

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The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. Dave Brat

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A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty. Dave Brat

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My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money. Dave Brat

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China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous. Dave Brat

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people. Dave Brat

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The good news is dollars don't vote, people do. Dave Brat

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The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left. Dave Brat

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The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street. Dave Brat

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I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work. Dave Brat

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes. Dave Brat

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