When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.

Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether our shortcomings, brought to light by 9/11, could have been a result of too much government.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.