Quotes About Regulation

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.

Rent control created deadweight loss.

I would like to try to cap rent prices.

Whenever rent controls or increased tenants' rights are raised, naysayers wail that doing so will cause landlords to flee the rental market. Firstly, that is a canard: if a landlord charges £1000 for a room, and you tell him from now on he can only charge £900, he won't decide to instead earn nothing.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

We could repeal Dodd-Frank. I think that would be a big help.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.

You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.

Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There's room for plenty of creativity here.

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.