John Stossel Quotes

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

All regulation can ever do is approximate the results of competition.

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Generally I'm against regulation.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

The Government must get out of the "protective" business and the "subsidy" business and the "improvement" and the "development" business. It must let trade, and commerce, and manufactures, and steamboats, and railroads and telegraphs alone. It cannot touch them without breeding corruption.

I believe that we need to take government out of business, and then we need to take business and put business back into government because government has no place in our businesses

When prices are transparent and competition is encouraged, consumers win. We believe that can prove true in health care as it has in every other area of the American economy.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

Heavy-handed regulations hurt the very consumers they're supposed to help.

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?