John Stossel Quotes

• I’m a libertarian. It’s a terrible word.

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• I won’t ever got to a place that’s racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I’ll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

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• 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.

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• I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

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• I was a closet stutterer.

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• 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.

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• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

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• I like taking the subway to work.

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• 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.

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• Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

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• Give me a break.

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• Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

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• Companies don’t get rich hurting their customers.

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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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• But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it’s just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

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• As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I’m dying to take something.

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

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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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Birth:	6th March, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Television Presenter

About

John Frank Stossel was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA. He is an American journalist, TV presenter, author and libertarian pundit, known for his career on both ABC News and Fox Business Channel. Stossel's style combines reporting and commentary. He earned a BA degree in Psychology from Princeton University in 1969. He began his journalism career as a researcher for KGW-TV, was a consumer reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. In 1981 Roone Arledge offered Stossel a job at ABC News, as a correspondent for 20/20 and consumer reporter for Good Morning America. As a reporter, he has received numerous honors including 19 Emmy Awards, and he has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. He has written several books include: Give Me a Break, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity, and No, They Can't. He married Ellen Abrams. They have two children, Lauren and Max.

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