One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.

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

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

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.