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.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

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.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

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

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

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.