Quotes About Regulation

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

They don't have any idea I work for the Population Police.

Ogni legge trasgredita troppo spesso è cattiva; spetta al legislatore abrogarla o emendarla, per impedire che il dispregio in cui è caduta quella stolta ordinanza si estenda ad altre leggi più giuste.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.

Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones.

Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones. Lo espontáneo y natural del sistema se reduce a medida que la sociedad progresa y se crean estructuras legales que regulan el mercado.

No loitering. Anyone caught loitering will be subject to the predicate is loitering.

They knew that the police worked unremittingly, unceasingly, always and ever to bring every phase of human activity under their control.

Micro-regulation is micro-tyranny, a slithering, serpentine network of insinuating Ceaucescu and Kim Jong-Il mini-me's. It's time for the mass rejection of their diktats. A political order that subjects you to the caprices of faceless bureaucrats or crusading judges merits no respect. To counter the Bureau of Compliance, we need an Alliance of Non-Compliance to help once free people roll back the regulatory state.

Google and Apple and other latter day American success stories started in somebody's garage--the one place where innovation isn't immediately buried by bureaucracy, or at least in most states, not until some minor municipal functionary discovers you neglected to apply for a Not Sitting Around on My Ass All Day permit.

America has potholed roads and decrepit airports, but it builds state-of-the-art offices for regulatory bureaucrats—and their enforcers. The federal Department of Education doesn't employ a single teacher, but it does have a SWAT team.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

One's associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications.

Roosevelt and his advisers soon fell into the habit of calling for Bureau reports on matters that had little or nothing to do with law enforcement.

Government! Well; I suppose there must be government. But the less of it the better. I'm not against government; — nor yet against laws, Mr. Finn; though the less of them, too, the better

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government.