“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”

“Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth its incremental costs. Accordingly, studies of government-imposed recycling programs in the United States have shown that what they salvage is usually worth less than the cost of salvaging it.”

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”

“Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.”

“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”