Quotes By John Stossel

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

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.

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

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

I was a closet stutterer.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

I like taking the subway to work.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

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.

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Give me a break.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

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.

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.

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

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

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.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.