Quotes About Oversight

My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.

Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

Generally I'm against regulation.

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration.

Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!