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I was a closet stutterer.

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John Stossel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 4
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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
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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.
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We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
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I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
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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.
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It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
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'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.
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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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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.'
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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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Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
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I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.
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A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.
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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.
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Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
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