Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

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

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

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.