I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
I don't like government, it's just that simple.
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.