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.

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

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

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.

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.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture