Words matter. These are the best John Stossel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 and government will make it better.
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone’s share gets larger.
As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I’m dying to take something.
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolutely safety or give me death.’ America is supposed to be about freedom.
People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don’t.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
I won’t ever got to a place that’s racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I’ll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
I like taking the subway to work.
We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
Give me a break.
I was a closet stutterer.
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.
Isn’t allowing people a choice what America is all about?
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 bankrupt, the factories don’t go away, the creative people don’t go away. They get employed more productively by others.
Why, in our ‘free’ country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
I’m an American. I’m for prosperity. I’ve discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
