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.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

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

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

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