Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

If a man own land the land owns him.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

No one can stop what God has for you.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.