If you are a politician and are any kind of a wit at all - even half of one - you can expect to be lionised in the press by bored political correspondents who will guffaw at your bon mots because the rest of what passes for gaggery generally strikes a bum note.
Some may guffaw at the notion that libertarians think working conditions should improve, but this is to confuse the desire for something to change with the desire for the government to try and change it (an all to common mistake).