126 Quotes by John Stossel

I was a closet stutterer.

I like taking the subway to work.

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

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 interest, 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.

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

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

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

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.

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.