John Stossel Quotes - Page 2

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• When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.

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  Pie, Entrepreneur, Share

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• Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

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  Government, Law, Regulation

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• ..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?

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  Real, Mean, Thinking

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

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  America, Safety, Giving

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• Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.

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  Government, Population, Income

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• The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it for granted that when we stick a piece of plastic in a wall, cash will come out; that when we give the same plastic to a stranger, he will rent us a car, and the next month, Visa will have the accounting correct to the penny. By contrast, "experts" in government can't even count the vote accurately.

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  Wall, Rocks, Government

  "Market Magic: Competition Polices Companies, and It Sure Beats Regulation and Lawyers" by John Stossel, www.abcnews.go.com. April 16, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Running, Passion, Worry

  "Busybody Politicians, Get Off Our Backs" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 06, 2006.

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• The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

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  Government, Needs, Politician

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

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  Taken, Ignorance, Government

  "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

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  Children, People, Manhattan

  "Studio Briefing", movieweb.com. January 28, 2004.

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• Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

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  Giving Up, People, Medical

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• Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

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  Jobs, Government, Giving

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• The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

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  Government, America, Giving

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• Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

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  Honest, Threat, Company

  "Market Magic: Competition Polices Companies, and It Sure Beats Regulation and Lawyers". www.abcnews.go.com. April 16, 2008.

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• [T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

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  Government, Balance, Want

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• It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.

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  Responsibility, People

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

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  Government, Arbitrary, Want

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• 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.

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  America, People, Creative

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• The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.

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  Running, School, Kids

  "Smearing education choice". townhall.com. July 26, 2006.

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• '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.

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  Government, Noble, Demand

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• Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

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  Running, Government, Scams

  "Madoff Is a Piker" by John Stossel, townhall.com. January 7, 2009.

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• As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

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  Dying, Persons, Ought

  "John Stossel's Beef With the Government Regulating Drugs". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

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  Media, Talking, Water

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• I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

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  Jobs, Believe, Government

  The Oregonian, October 26, 1994.

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• I was a closet stutterer.

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  Closets

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