Quotes by Dave Brat

About Dave Brat:

David Alan "Dave" Brat is an American economist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving Virginia's 7th congressional district. Prior to his election to Congress, Brat was a professor at Randolph–Macon College. A Republican, he serves on these House Committees: Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business.
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I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

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

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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.

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If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care cos...

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I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

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Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fa...

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All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ens...

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'Free markets' is not a liberal or conservative issue. The rule of law is not a Right or Left issue. Those are American principles since our founding, and to the extent that other countries follow our lead... they will prosper. That's what I want, be...

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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.

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

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The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

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

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I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDave Brat
  • DescriptionAmerican economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
  • AliasesDavid Brat; David A. Brat; David Alan Brat
  • BornJuly, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Professor; Economist