Charles Koch Quotes

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

If Hillary Clinton had policies that would more likely make people's lives better than Republicans, I'd be for Hillary. I'm for whoever will do that. I couldn't care less.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.