Quotes About Regulation

With that law still in place, Citi likely could not have become as large and complex as it did.

I saw the GSEs as the responsibility of Congress

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s—a period when Hollywood worked under the "heavy hand" of the Hays Production Code.

After nearly half a century, it's easy to forget that the Hays Code was not some outside limitation imposed by the government. It was a content standard imposed by motion picture companies voluntarily.

The answer to every "social justice" question is more taxes and regulation, say the professors.

Disintegrationist philosophy of government boils down to a government without limits, administered by bureaucrats without accountability.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.

As the ones human beings are extreamly apt to get under the influence of alcohol, and, while so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbad the selling any liquor to them;

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

As far as discom reforms are concerned, they have to be a combination of two parts. One is the existing balance sheet and, therefore, taking care of that. The second important is the reduction in losses going forward.

If we leave the E.U., we will regain control of our own money.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution grants Congress clear jurisdiction with regard to U.S. citizenship and immigration matters.