With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.

Walk in the light while you have the light.

Whatever belief that doesn't make you happier, stronger, healthier or wiser, surely doesn't deserve to be sheltered in your mind.

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.