I am a limited-government libertarian.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Free time is the enemy of progress

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.