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I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

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

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

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

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

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

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

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

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

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.