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.

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

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

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 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.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.