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Quotes About Regulation

I've never been given a ticket by a police man.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?
~ Kevin McCarthy
I think in China they have a camera for every street corner, and if you jaywalk, they don't give you a ticket. They put you on the big TV screen to shame you.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
Theatre ticket price capping is not a bad idea.
~ Rockline Venkatesh
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.
~ Geoff Mulgan
I would make it illegal to walk into a comedy club with a tie on.
~ Lee Mack
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Brexit was meant to be about taking back control, we are ceding control; it was meant to be about trade deals, we are not going to have any meaningful trade deals; it was meant to be about having a turbo-charged tiger economy on the edge of Europe, we are going to be bound by the common rule book that we won't have a hand in shaping.
~ Jo Johnson
In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.
~ Tippi Hedren
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
~ Eric Topol
Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
~ Walt Mossberg
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
~ Jane Siberry
We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.
~ Hulk Hogan
We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.
~ Richard Cordray
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.
~ Salvador de Madariaga
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.
~ Samuel Johnson
the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.
~ Samuel Rutherford
handling my ash is verboten right now.
~ Sandra Hill
The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
~ Sara Sheridan
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
~ Susan Glaspell
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.
~ William Rehnquist
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith