Quotes About Regulation

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

By law and institutional culture, FDA seeks to apply a single tool to its approach to regulation - the requirement for pre-market approval. The agency is accustomed to compelling innovators to submit evidence to FDA and seek permission for marketing.

The tools Facebook provides make discrimination easy. Facebook has monopoly profit margins, so it could easily provide real staffing to protect against discrimination, if it wanted to. It doesn't want to.

It's thriving, responsibly regulated business that does the research and development to provide the tools as well as the means to a better country.

It's difficult to do a love scene in Indian cinema. The censors are sitting on top of your head.

The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'

I don't want to talk about the regulation of financial markets because that is not my sphere of expertise. It's a very complicated topic, and if I have written a number of books they are always on topics that I think I know something about.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

t's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

In Russia a café like this would have been closed down in a moment. In Europe they would have put the owner in prison. In the USA the proprietor would have been hit with an absolutely massive fine. And in Japan the boss of an establishment like this would have committed seppuku out of a sense of shame.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

the work of sexologists and the development of sex therapy are all instances of how men's power over women was to be supported and managed through the regulation of marital sex. Sex, in this scheme of things, was not a natural and spontaneous seeking after pleasure by men and women, but a regulatory mechanism designed and constructed to enforce male dominance and female submission.

the effect of decensorship was the burgeoning of mass-market pornography. John Sutherland describes how the pornography industry developed in Britain subsequent to the 1959 Act and the great trials. "Meanwhile, in the shadows behind these spotlighted censorship spectacles, 'pornography' was growing steadily from a hole-in-the-corner specialist supply service to a multi-million pound, efficiently organised industry".

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

You can't legislate against stupidity, but we try to do it all the time.