Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

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

The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.