"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

"Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."

"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."

"President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission."

"Government is dysfunctional."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."