Quotes by John Stossel,the American treasure....

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

-The Oregonian, 26 October 1994-

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.

"John Stossel: Not Afraid to Tell the Truth". NewsMax. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.