You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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

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.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.