A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

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

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

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.