John Stossel Quotes

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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 already $170,000 in…
• 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 things happen, and…
• The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.
• [T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.
• A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go…
• Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which…
• I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government…
• Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
• I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and…
• I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
• Give me safety, or give me death.
• David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
• The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
• What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means…
• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
• I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I…
• Good government has to mean less government.
• It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
• Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions
• When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

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