There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.