According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.