#mer

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#camera #crush #having #like #movie

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. ↗

— John Stossel

#creates #discovered #government #i #limited

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct. ↗

— John Stossel

#been #bullied #bullies #business #camera

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. ↗

— John Stossel

#before #better #bring #consumer #doing

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers. ↗

— John Stossel

#customers #get #hurting #rich #their

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. ↗

— John Stossel

#business #called #competition #consumers #criticizing

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom. ↗

— John Stossel

#absolutely #america #death #did #freedom

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. ↗

— John Stossel

#get #i #imperfect #learned #market

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#did #god #his #i #merely

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england