The Independents (TV show)

"I'm so sick of this bit of jargon. For crying out loud, in L. A., where you live, the city council members make a hundred eighty thousand dollars a year, they get pensions of hundreds of thousands, there's ten thousand people in California who make more than a hundred grand a year just on their pensions, and—all this just because, for their job, they take our money so they can tell us what not to do—that's not "public service," that's public theft!"

"The great thing about libertarianism is [that] it really is the American Dream—it is the ability of everybody to live their life, to build their life, according to what they want so long as you don't hurt anybody else."

"There have been many [libertarian writers who have inspired me]: Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard—just-just a number of people who have influenced me— Mary Ruwart, Harry Browne who ran for president as a Libertarian a couple times—so there've been a number of people."

"I think libertarianism does appeal to most people because that's how we lead our lives until the state gets involved. We lead our lives in voluntary interactions with other folks, and we follow what libertarians call the nonaggression axiom which means you're not supposed to initiate force against someone else except, of course, in defense of your own liberty or property. So that's something that's the Golden Rule, and that's something we can all relate to."

"Having alternative currencies is great, right, because, historically, government's had a monopoly on currency. … At the end of the day, why should only politicians—either directly or indirectly—control the currency? We can reduce transaction cost, provide an alternative, and—look, I don't know whether it'll be Bitcoin or not—but I think the concept of digital currencies is here to stay, and the fact that a politician would write to try to ban them in their infancy is just the wrong way to go about it. Let the market determine whether there's any value there or not. … If people are saying, "Look, we gotta ban Bitcoin because it's somewhat anonymous and anonymous transactions can occur," or "because it's possible for criminals to use it," all of those arguments can be used to say, "Just ban dollars." … The government doesn't need to "treat" it [Bitcoin] at all. … The government policy should be completely agnostic about what unit of exchange is used."