John Stossel Quotes


I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.


Citations

Stossel, John. Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media. HarperCollins, 2004.

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His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.


The mantra was not heard much after the collapse of the ‘smart’ markets in 2008 and the ‘dumb’ governments had to come to the rescue of the economy all over the industrialized world.


John Stossel
John Stossel
  • Born: March 6, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Libertarian Pundit, Author, Columnist, Reporter, TV Presenter

John Frank Stossel is an American libertarian television personality, author, consumer journalist, and pundit, known for his career on both ABC News and Fox Business Channel.