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

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

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.

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

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

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.'