If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown.

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.