I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.
Milton FriedmanEverywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.
Milton FriedmanThe government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
Milton FriedmanI say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
Milton FriedmanGermany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.
Milton FriedmanOur emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.
Milton Friedman