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

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

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.