Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.