What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

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

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

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

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.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.