Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the AMA.

If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.