When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.