Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.