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

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.

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