“If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.”

“Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.”

“The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”

“[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.”

“Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!”

“I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.”

“Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet.”