The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.

James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.