The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

If you fall, dare to rise up again.

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts.

To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Cliare: "You know what? I need you right now." Shane:"Now?" Claire: "Right now." Shane: "Oh, that's so exactly what I was going to say." *dropping C. to the bed.* Claire: "Jinxies