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John Stossel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 4
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We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
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A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.
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Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.
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People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
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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.
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A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.
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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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