Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.

Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.