Quote

'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.

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
Noble
Demand
Approach
Others
Preferences
Used
Impose
Government
Preference
Live
Compassionate
Life
Considered

More quotes by 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
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
John Stossel
Image
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
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
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
John Stossel
Image
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.
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
Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'
John Stossel
Image
Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
John Stossel
Image
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
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
Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.
John Stossel
Image
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
John Stossel
Image
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
John Stossel
Image
Patrick Henry didn't say, Give me safety, or give me death.
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
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
John Stossel
Image
The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.
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
I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.
John Stossel