I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.