[Cato’s privatization effort was aimed from the start not just at dismantling Social Security but also at making major inroads against what it considered an overweening central government.] Social Security, … is the linchpin of...

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers

Businesses and nonprofits deal with 15% revenue losses all the time.

Half the stories in every newspaper should be headlined ‘Stop me before I legislate again

I don’t believe in taxing the good people of Kansas, New Hampshire, and California $30 billion on the grounds that otherwise you’ll tax them more later. If we actually had saved all the money that...

Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that’s being talked about here, I don’t know if there will...

We did ask a few members of the Bush economic team to come. We didn’t get that.

Why are taxpayers in California and Texas and Massachusetts paying for a museum in Indianapolis?

George Mason is classified as a school where there are some libertarian professors, and that makes it somewhat unusual. There are a lot of colleges not welcoming to libertarians and conservatives.

Why is that [museum], No. 1, part of a highway bill and, No. 2, why is it part of a federal highway bill?

The main argument we would make is that marriage law has always been left to the states.

Some 6,000 special projects [in the transportation bill] are not getting any economic oversight

Bush is a big government president,

The initial reaction was to throw heaps and heaps of money at the problem. While you’ve had increases in welfare spending over the last 40 years, you’ve also had increases in the number of unwed...

Social conservatives have discovered this is an issue you can win on.

There’s a real question whether we want to get all those people back into New Orleans. It’s more logical that the money should follow the people.