Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Advocacy Copy Share Image
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research. — Joel Miller Complying Copy Share Image
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving… — Joel Miller Big government Copy Share Image
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' — Joel Miller Curb Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of… — Joel Miller Foul Copy Share Image
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of… — Joel Miller Committees Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. — Joel Miller Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product… — Joel Miller Availability Copy Share Image
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality. — Joel Miller Decrease Copy Share Image
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well. — Joel Miller Focus Copy Share Image
Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the… — Joel Miller Accomplish Copy Share Image
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller Common Copy Share Image
With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day… — Joel Miller Brutal Copy Share Image
The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate… — Joel Miller Government Copy Share Image
To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and… — Joel Miller Goods Copy Share Image
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness… — Joel Miller Advocacy Copy Share Image
Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas… — Joel Miller Areas Copy Share Image
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy… — Joel Miller Crime Copy Share Image
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common… — Joel Miller Chance Copy Share Image
Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right… — Joel Miller Benefits Copy Share Image
Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate… — Joel Miller Benefits Copy Share Image
