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Asimov published four books in 1980: Casebook of the Black Widowers, How Did We Find Out About Oil?, In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978 and How Did We Find Out About Coal?
Of those, Casebook of the Black Widowers was a collection of mystery short stories and the "How Did We Find Out About" books were childrens' non-fiction, which leaves only In Joy Still Felt as a potential candidate for this quote. I downloaded an EPUB version of this book and did a search for "libertarians" and found nothing.
Either the OP got the year wrong, or they just pulled this quote out of their ass.
Hm. Did a search for a couple quotes from the text. Absolutely no returns on 4 search engines. One would think Asimov’s work would be pretty easy to find, especially a quote so timely. I’m now skeptical.
E: found it, see previous edit.
"The Sun Shines Bright" is the book where it was collected, but it was originally published in the April 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Found it, thank you!
The year is wrong: it's 1981, from "the sun shines bright"
Yeah, it looks like it's from the article "Nice Guys Finish First!" That article was apparently published in a magazine in 1980, so technically the OP is right, although it wasn't collected into a book until the following year.
"The Sun Shines Bright" is the book where it was collected, but it was originally published in the April 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.