Quotes About Regulation

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

When you use the steroids, you use them for a long time. When you use the steroids for a long time, you have a problem. It's a drug and it's not good for the sport.

Laws are silent in time of war.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on.

FDR and most of his closest advisers believed that the aim of the New Deal was to save the capitalist system from unreconstructed capitalists. Government regulation, instead of being the enemy of capitalism, was conceived as the means of saving it by promoting employment, decent wages, education, and a cushion against the cyclical swings endemic to capitalism.

an intrusive government of the politically self-righteous

Sometimes rules are there to save your life.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

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.

I don't like local, state or federal level of got mandating anything in our lives , in our families, and in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

thyroid hormone increases the rates of most chemical reactions in all cells, thus helping to set the tempo of bodily activity.

Insulin controls glucose metabolism;

adrenocortical hormones control sodium and potassium ions and protein metabolism;