Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.