A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God. . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.
I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.
The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited