Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

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

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

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

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

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

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