“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”

“I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.”

“Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons”

“The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.”

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”