Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

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.

I like taking the subway to work.

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

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.