And where are you going to get these angels who are going to run society for us?

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.