Quotes About Regulation

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

The government must recognise that taxing retailers differently is reckless.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.

We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

We have to make sure that the banks pay every nickel of loan losses that they create, but we don't want to hold them responsible for withdrawals if we want the economy to recover.

It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

Red flag law is a general concept. There could be good ones and there can be bad ones. You should be against the bad ones, as I am.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

If you punish the banks, all you are doing is reducing the banks' capital, which you want to increase, and punishing shareholders, who have done nothing wrong.