Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

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

Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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.