The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.