Quotes from John Stossel

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

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

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

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.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

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.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

I like taking the subway to work.

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

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.