Regulation Quotes

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard. to do business.

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand...3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.

Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done 14 of them in law this year alone, because they can't filibuster that.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?