The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.