“Well, I have obviously made a decision to make sure the economy doesn?t collapse. I?ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. I think when people review what?s taken place in the last six months, and put it all in one, in one, you know, in one package, they?re realize how significantly we have moved.”
George W. Bush
CNN Interview
December 16, 2008
“No man has ever fought harder for the American traditions of liberty and democracy than President Roosevelt. No one has done more to save the capitalist system. …Now that private business has shown its inability to function without government assistance, there is no way to save the capitalist system except by resuming the government spending-lending program.”
Sen. Lister Hill (D – Alabama)
Chicago Daily Tribune
Apr 18, 1938