Quote

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

John Stossel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Stossel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 4
Journalist
Reporter
Television Presenter
Writer
Chicago Heights
Illinois
John Frank Stossel
Fight
Hear
Fighting
Living
Alert
Time
Liberals
Arguments
Keeps
Argument

More quotes by John Stossel

Image
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.'
John Stossel
Image
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
John Stossel
Image
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
John Stossel
Image
Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
John Stossel
Image
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.
John Stossel
Image
It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
John Stossel
Image
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.
John Stossel
Image
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.
John Stossel
Image
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.
John Stossel
Image
As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
John Stossel
Image
When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort
John Stossel
Image
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
John Stossel
Image
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.
John Stossel
Image
I was a closet stutterer.
John Stossel
Image
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
John Stossel
Image
There's no business that's too small for government to torture
John Stossel
Image
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
John Stossel
Image
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
John Stossel
Image
The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.
John Stossel
Image
Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
John Stossel