126 Quotes by John Stossel

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

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

Give me safety, or give me death.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

Good government has to mean less government.

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.

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.'