[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.