John Stossel Quotes
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
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 occasionally criticizing regulation.
Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.
Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.
Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.
Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.
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 running for office.
'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.
Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'
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 ones to trust.
