It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.