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

Good government has to mean less government.

Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.

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

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

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

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.