John Stossel Quotes - Page 3

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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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• A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

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  Art, Men, Creating

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• Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.

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  Government, Challenges, Humanity

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• 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.

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  Littles, Authority, Should

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

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• I was a closet stutterer.

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  Closets

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• Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.

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  Running, Class, People

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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

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  Willing, Fronts

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• Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

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  Years, Giving, Break

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

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  Government, Lawyer, Kind

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• The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

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  People, Political, Shut Up

  "I Got Elected. You May Not Criticize Me" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Government, Years, Watches

  "John Stossel Breaks Down the Government-Fear Combination". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2009.

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

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  Drug, Competition, Trustworthy

  "John Stossel's Plan to Abolish the FDA Should Be Laughed Out of Town". www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

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  Struggle, People, Ashamed

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• Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

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  Manipulate, Complexes

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• If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

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  Government, Important, Return

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• Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

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  Real, Cancer, Moving

  "Arrogant Conceit". townhall.com. December 24, 2008.

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

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  Years, Anchors, Wanted

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• Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

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  Hurt, Rich, Company

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• Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

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  Party, Believe, Ideas

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.

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  Government, Years, Prosperity

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Apr 01, 2013

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

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  Winning, Thinking, Transactions

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• Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

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  Ought

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Fighting, Argument

  "John Stossel Scorched by The New York Times". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2009.

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• Good government has to mean less government.

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  Mean, Government

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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

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  I've Learned, Stuttering, Things I've Learned

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