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.

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

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

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

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.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

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