“Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.”

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.

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

People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

Don’t be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God’s altitude for your life.

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.

My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?