Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.