Quotes About Regulation

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.

Students like my son, who has a place at university which is dependent on getting the right grades, must place his fate in the hands of two groups of people: teachers and a faceless team at Ofqual, the exam regulator.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.

Setting regulatory certainty is very important for bitcoin. I'm opposed to the regulations, but the bitcoin businesses need to know the rules of the game in order to move ahead.

I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so difficult that it's almost impossible for foreigners to have an advantage over locals who have better political connections and who can manipulate the regulatory system much more effectively.

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.

The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.