John Stossel

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

“All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.”

“Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?”

“As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.”

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

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

“I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.”

“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.”

“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 happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.”

“The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.”

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

“I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.”