"Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management."

"Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned."

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."