It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it.

We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.