126 Quotes by John Stossel

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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