John Stossel
John Stossel
John Frank Stosselis an American consumer television personality, author, and libertarian pundit. In October 2009, Stossel left his long-time employment at ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel. He is the host of a weekly news show on Fox Business, Stossel, which was first broadcast on December 10, 2009. Stossel also regularly provides analysis, appearing on various Fox News programs, which include weekly appearances on The O'Reilly Factor. He also writes a Fox News Blog,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 March 1947
CountryUnited States of America
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
I like taking the subway to work.
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 ashamed for people to see me struggle.
Give me safety, or give me death.
I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?
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.
Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interest, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.