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.

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 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.

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.

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.

It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

I realize that acting is my job, and I have a life outside of my career to help keep me grounded. It is great to have a job you love!

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!