People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

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

Wealthier is healthier.