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"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
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"...It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in the shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you."
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"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."
"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"
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