Quotes About Regulation

There is no such thing as free regulation.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

We have to be careful that we don't have so much regulation that would prevent all of the people who are benefiting from Airbnb to benefit.

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

Americans who want a healthy and clean environment expect lawful, effective, and economically sound regulation - the Clean Power Plan failed on all three counts.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.

It's worth knowing that there's very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They're different things, particularly during campaign periods.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.