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I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

I like taking the subway to work.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.'

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

Give me a break.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

I was a closet stutterer.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.

It's not about electing the right people. It's about a narrowing their responsibilities.

Give me safety, or give me death.

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.