Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.