There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.