Quotes About Policy

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

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

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

I think what is effective regulation is one that follows the law and one that will be held up in court.

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free market and some regulations which are essential in order to safeguard the interests of consumers and of people in general.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

I would think that to say 'regulations cost jobs' or 'regulations create jobs' is too simple, and we need to look at the regulation.

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.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.

It's one thing to change regulations on the city level, another on the state, and still another on the federal. The higher the levels are, the more difficult change gets.

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output during our years in the E.U.

President Trump cut regulations, allowing businesses large and small to expand and hire. The Democrats created those regulations.

The critics can't say that our regulations are making the environment worse, and 'Oh, it's getting better, well then it must be somebody else who made it better.'

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 think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

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