Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.