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“The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.”
-- John Stossel

#Government #People #Regulation
“David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.”
-- John Stossel

#Years #Economics #Guides
“What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.”
-- John Stossel

#Kids #Thinking #Years
“Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.”
-- John Stossel

#Happiness #Meaningful #Inspiration
“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

#Jobs #Real #Simple
“Give me safety, or give me death.”
-- John Stossel

#Safety #Giving
“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

#Mean #Compassion #Wanting Someone
“I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.”
-- John Stossel

#Years #Anchors #Wanted
“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.”
-- John Stossel

#Government #Years #Long
“Good government has to mean less government.”
-- John Stossel

#Mean #Government
“Itâ€™s not about electing the right people. Itâ€™s about a narrowing their responsibilities.”
-- John Stossel

#Responsibility #People
“Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions”
-- John Stossel

#Decision #Life Is #Individual
“When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort”
-- John Stossel

#Effort #Return #Equal
“The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.”
-- John Stossel

#Government #Needs #Politician
“Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.”
-- John Stossel

#Hurt #Rich #Get Rich
“Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?”
-- John Stossel

#Country #Choices #Dying
“As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.”
-- John Stossel

#Dying #Persons
“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

#Government #Years #Prosperity
“I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.”
-- John Stossel

#Struggle #People #Ashamed
“I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.”
-- John Stossel

#Simple #Competition #Regulation
“The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.”
-- John Stossel

#Willing
“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

#Jobs #Kids #Bully
“People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.”
-- John Stossel

#Discovery #Self #People
“Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.”
-- John Stossel

#America #Safety #Giving
“You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.”
-- John Stossel

#Country #Army #Borders
“The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.”
-- John Stossel

#People #Political #Shut Up
“Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.”
-- John Stossel

#Drug #Competition #Trustworthy
“I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.”
-- John Stossel

#Government #Years #Watches
“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

#Littles #Authority #Should
“All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.”
-- John Stossel

#Rights #Government #Bigger

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