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In other words, we always had the sense that the
economy shouldn't just grow wild. There should be -- it should be within a
framework of law.
So in the United
States we've always thought from the beginning, without being socialist, that
there's a role for government and there's a role for law and only within that
context can capitalism develop. That's why I speak about democratic capitalism.
You even need the external law and you need the habits in people that if they
say they're going to do a good day's work, you can trust them to do a good
day's work. If you have a manager who's seven miles away who said we did thus
and so, you can believe him. And by goodness if you don't believe him you fire
him, because we depend on honesty.
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