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

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.

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

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.'

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