Regulation Quotes

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.

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.

A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death.

I think Obamacare has now taken over almost from regulation, which is ridiculous what's happening with overregulation, as the biggest single problem for opening and keeping businesses going.

We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

We've issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody's ever seen regulations like we have.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

[Hillary Clinton's] regulations are a disaster, and you're going to increase regulations all over the place.

When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation.

I'm going to cut regulations.

Generally I'm against regulation.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.

I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.