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

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.

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

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

It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.