John Stossel

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

— John Stossel

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

— John Stossel

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

— John Stossel

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

— John Stossel

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

— John Stossel

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

— John Stossel

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

— John Stossel

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where…

— John Stossel

If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to…

— John Stossel

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants…

— John Stossel

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true.…

— John Stossel

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately,…

— John Stossel

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance.…

— John Stossel

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is…

— John Stossel

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's…

— John Stossel

“In 1999 the National Research Council concluded that 'the total exposure to naturally occurring carcinogens exceeds the exposure to synthetic carcinogens.'... The…

— John Stossel

We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief…

— John Stossel

The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it…

— John Stossel

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us…

— John Stossel

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a…

— John Stossel

Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life,…

— John Stossel

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.…

— John Stossel

The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money…

— John Stossel

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

— John Stossel

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than…

— John Stossel

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

— John Stossel

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

— John Stossel

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

— John Stossel

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

— John Stossel

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

— John Stossel

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

— John Stossel

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

— John Stossel

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

— John Stossel

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

— John Stossel

It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.

— John Stossel

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

— John Stossel

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

— John Stossel

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

— John Stossel