The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.

Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.

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

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense of freedom. My objective, my god... is freedom of individuals to pursue their own values.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.