The real minimum wage is zero.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.

Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that.