Politics Quotes by John Stossel

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

— John Stossel

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

— John Stossel

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

— John Stossel

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

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Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

— John Stossel

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

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

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

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

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

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When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All…

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Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

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'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose…

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As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by…

— John Stossel

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

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

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To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called…

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Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally…

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I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15…

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Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing…

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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…

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Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that…

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A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds…

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“When America began, government cost every citizen $20 (in [2003] money) per year. Taxes rose during wars, but for most of the…

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

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Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will…

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What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was…

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“On September 11, it was government that failed. Law enforcement agencies didn't detect the plot. The FBI had reports that said young…

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“A group called the Food Research and Action Center wants the government to spend more on food programs. Sure enough, their study…

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

— John Stossel

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

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

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

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

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If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and…

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

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

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The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay…

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

— John Stossel