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How to use the word free-enterprise in a Sentence?

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I’m a red-blooded, full-throated, free-market, free-enterprise capitalist, i think we should applaud free enterprise and we should sing from the hills the benefits while we fix the negatives, as opposed to denigrate the whole thing.

– Austin Steele/CNN Dimon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Big Tech claims that Big Tech simply presides over an open and free market, but in a truly free market the same party can't represent the seller, the buyer, make the rules, and conduct the auction, and that is unacceptable in a free enterprise system -- it hurts consumers and it hurts competition.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I suspect that what Bernie saw in Russia probably affected his views that you see today, where he is not anti-free-enterprise or capitalism but he wants to have a safety net and give a fair shake to all, but certainly not to have a command economy we saw in the Soviet Union.

– Howard Seaver

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some of the behaviour by China on areas like forced technology transfer, subsidies by state-owned enterprises, and also IP (Intellectual Property) violations have led to some of the mistrust in the global trading system, people can see things are unfair, that if state-owned enterprises are able to subsidise and able to undermine free enterprise economies, then that can destroy trust in trade.

– Liz Truss

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We both had farm backgrounds. We both were free enterprise people and we had similar goals in life, and we were both in teaching, we were just kind of together in our concepts of what to do and what direction to go and so forth. To that end, the couple cited their faith in one another as the fuel for both good times and bad.

– Marvin Stone

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I never thought we'd be having a referendum on the free enterprise system versus socialism but that appears to be where we are headed, i just think we need to remind people that we don't want the United States to look like Venezuela, or any of these other failed experiments and socialism.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The United States Government and Department of Commerce can not and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China, this action will ensure that our technologies, fostered in an environment of individual liberty and free enterprise, are not used to repress defenseless minority populations.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

– Lew Rockwell

added by Normando
4 years ago

I think capitalism, without free market capitalism, countries don't get rich, and so I would rather have a country that's based on, you know, a free enterprise system of property rights and free exchange of free trade of low tax rates, than a country that state, there are a lot of democracies --.

– Michael Moore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Heritage is a permanent policy research institution fighting for conservative ideas, we remain committed … to the principles that have made America great : free enterprise ; limited government ; individual freedom ; traditional American values ; and a strong national defense.

– Thomas A. Saunders III

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't like it. I think it's a lot of excess baggage. I think it's unnecessary, and when you think about free enterprise, it's really not free enterprise. I'd be against it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I will continue to express my concerns about the dangers of electing someone who has pledged to continue Obama's disastrous policies, and, I will continue to do everything I can to ensure that our next President is a free enterprise Republican who will restore our nation to greatness and keep our citizens safe.

– Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore

Found on CNN
8 years ago

China's probably going to have a 5 or 6 percent growth rate. It's a managed economy. It's not your free enterprise economy, and they will get their growth one way or another, i just don't see a huge impact.

– David Cockfield

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

China's probably going to have a 5 or 6 percent growth rate. It's a managed economy. It's not your free enterprise economy, and they will get their growth one way or another, i just don't see a huge impact. It's too far away ... It's probably wise on their part to do that if they want to keep (their economic growth) at 5 or 6 percent.

– David Cockfield

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Israel is more than an American ally, she is a mirror image of America in commitment to religious liberty, women's rights, free speech, elected government and an economic system based on free enterprise.

– Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

– Hannah Arendt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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