Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.
Walter E. WilliamsMore important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.
Walter E. WilliamsWhat we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.
Walter E. WilliamsNothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
Walter E. WilliamsOnce Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.
Walter E. WilliamsProfit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.
Walter E. Williams