If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

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.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".