Quotes By John Stossel

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.

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.

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

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

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.

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.