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" All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger. "
Bigger
Rights
Our
" As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something. "
Something
Take
Dying
" A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. "
Good
America
Creative
" Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust. "
Freedom
Trust
Learn
" Companies don't get rich hurting their customers. "
Rich
Companies
Customers
" Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die. "
Die
Private
Trustworthy
" Give me a break. "
Give Me
Me
Give
" Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. "
Some
Skills
Purpose
" 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. "
Doing
Government
Will
" I like taking the subway to work. "
Like
Subway
Taking
" I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word. "
Terrible
Word
Libertarian
" I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government. "
Prosperity
Government
American
" I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one. "
Years
Wanted
Suddenly
" 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. "
Competition
Business
Simple
" Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about? "
America
Allowing
People
" I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college. "
You
More
Career
" I was a closet stutterer. "
Closet
" I was ashamed for people to see me struggle. "
See
Ashamed
Me
" 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. "
Camera
Kid
Television
" I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist. "
Speak
Will
Tell
" Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert. "
You
Time
Me
" No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win. "
Only
Happens
Think
" Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom. "
Safety
Me
Say
" People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. "
People
Innovation
Own
" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "
People
Free
Government
" Private businesses ought to get to discriminate. "
Private
Discriminate
Get
" Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better. "
Monopoly
Better
Government
" The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. "
Front
Happiest
Others
" The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be. "
Never
Will
Thing
" The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. "
People
Miserable
Tried
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