John Stossel Quotes

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

  John Stossel

  Government, People, Regulation

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• 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 wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

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  Mean, Compassion, Wanting Someone

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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  Rights, Erosion, Government

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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• Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.

  John Stossel

  Children, Government, Opposites

  "The Teachers Unions Are Mad at Me". abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2006.

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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 debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

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  Kids, Thinking, Eight

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• If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.

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  Taken, Incentives, Littles

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Arrogance". townhall.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

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  Government, Giving, Wealth

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• Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

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  Entitlement, Entitled

  "The Entitlement Mess" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2008.

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

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  Discovery, Self, People

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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• Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

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  Safety, Giving, Give Me

  "Patrick Henry didn’t say, 'Give me safety, or give me death'" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. May 9, 2012.

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• What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

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  Mutual Benefit, Creating, People

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• Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

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  Decision, Life Is, Individual

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

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  Happiness, Meaningful, Inspiration

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• 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 how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Real, Simple

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• The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

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  Kids, Two, Racism

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• When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

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  Effort, Return, Equal

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• 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 really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.

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  Government, Years, Long

  "John Stossel: Not Afraid to Tell the Truth". Ed Sigall, NewsMax, June 3, 2006.

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• There's no business that's too small for government to torture

  John Stossel

  Government, Politics, Torture

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• David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

  John Stossel

  Years, Economics, Guides

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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

  John Stossel

  Country, Army, Borders

  "Is Ron Paul Hurting the Libertarian Movement?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2011.

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• To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

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  Government, People, Favors

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• People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators is that they almost always make things worse. If regulators did nothing, the self-correcting mechanisms of the market would mitigate most problems with more finesse. And less cost.

  John Stossel

  Independent, Self, People

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