Quotes About Regulation

The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Well-drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can and leave as few as may be to the decision of the judges.

We proceed next to consider in what manner property should be regulated in a state which is formed after the most perfect mode of government, whether it should be common or not;

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.

the only rule regulating shipboard sex was "So long as you don't do it in the corridors and frighten the simps.

Adam put the paper down and said, I never like to see government spelt with a large G.

Eroticism implies a claim of the instant against time, of the individual against the collectivity; it affirms separation against communication; it rebels against all regulation; it contains a principle hostile to society. Social customs are never bent to fit the rigor of institutions and laws: love has forever asserted itself against them.

All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.

No one with any sense of self-control.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

Your meta-emotion philosophy turns out to be very important to your children's future. It predicts how you will react to their emotional lives, which in turn predicts how (or if) they learn to regulate their own emotions. Because these skills are directly related to a child's social competency, how you feel about feelings can profoundly influence your child's future happiness. You have to be comfortable with your emotions in order to make your kids comfortable with theirs.

Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world's most sophisticated survival organ. All

Bringing Leviathan under control will be the heart of global politics

In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

America's power position as "the hammer of the whole earth" extends to more than military power. America tells other nations what to do and how to do it. For example, America forced the UBS AG Bank in Switzerland to close all of the offshore accounts in the Swiss Bank held by U.S. citizens, as part of an IRS "tax investigation which challenges Switzerland's famous banking secrecy laws." (Reuters, January 9, 2009).

Banks: "We should anticipate that at any point in time our U.S. banking system could suffer a blow from which it could not bounce back and which would result in government takeover…In whatever way it may start, if it starts, a series of major bank failures would totally alter the nation as we now know it.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

I'm convinced that, unfortunately, the general direction of rule changes for a long time has been to carve out greater space for the individual athlete while curbing the impact of team play. This narrows the opportunities to participate. In general, only "cookie cutter" athletic prodigies get serious looks. In my opinion, tinkering with the game to distort the natural balance between team and individual play is counterproductive.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

When government decides to set "standards" for an industry, to whom will it turn for expertise? Brilliant newcomers? No, government doesn't even know who they are. The older, lazier, bigger, arthritic businesses suggest the rules and make sure that their way is the only legal way.

Good government has to mean less government.