Quotes About Regulation

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.

I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general's warning.

At King Henry's Mound there is a perfect, uninterrupted view – created in 1710 – through a gap in the trees and all the way across the city to St Paul's Cathedral. It is a view that is protected by law. Protecting magnificent views is proof that the law is not, always, an ass.

Personal responsibility is better than any government order.

It's government's role to inform us of risks and let us use personal responsibility to evaluate that risk ourselves.

They treat kid actors more like an object than persons.

There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.

Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

Communism is like one big phone company.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.

Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they're too big to fail.