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 Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true.… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“If overpopulation or lack of resources created poverty, then Hong Kong should be poor. Hong Kong has 20 times as many people per square… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off,… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?' — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“Cornelius Vanderbilt and his fellow tycoon John D. Rockefeller were often called 'robber barons'. Newspapers said they were evil, and ran cartoons showing Vanderbilt… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
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