We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.