With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

How do you hold down government spending?

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

Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.