People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

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 problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.