Top 42 John Stossel No They Can't Quotes
#1. If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.
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#2. Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'
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#3. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?
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#4. All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
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#5. Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.
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#6. Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say 'conservative' the way people say 'child molester.'
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#7. Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.
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#9. Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.
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#10. I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
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#11. Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.
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#12. Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
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#14. You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
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#15. Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.
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#16. Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
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#23. What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.
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#24. Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
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#25. 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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#26. People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
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#27. Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.
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#28. The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
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#29. Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
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#30. 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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#31. I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
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#32. There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
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#33. Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.
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#34. Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
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#35. No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
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#36. As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving.
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#37. When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
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#38. We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
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#41. Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
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#42. 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.
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