Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.