John Stossel

“Give me a break.”

“I was a closet stutterer.”

“People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.”

“Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.”

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

“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.”

“I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.”

“I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.”

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

“We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.”

“Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.”

“When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.”

“Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.”

“No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.”

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

“I like taking the subway to work.”

“Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.”

“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.”

“Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?”

“You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.”