Quotes About Policy

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, frankly, no one knew who could pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

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

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

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

Generally I'm against regulation.

More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

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

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

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

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

We have to be careful that we don't have so much regulation that would prevent all of the people who are benefiting from Airbnb to benefit.

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

It's worth knowing that there's very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They're different things, particularly during campaign periods.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.