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

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

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

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.

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.