Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.