Quotes About Regulation

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée des Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici-même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée de Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.

First, you can't build a nuclear power plant quickly, run it for a while, see what works and what doesn't, then change the design to incorporate the lessons learned.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Selon Stewart, cette société des Senoïs est totalement exempte de toute forme d'angoisse, de dépression, d'agressivité ou de pulsions suicidaires. Toutes ces tendances sont parfaitement régulées par un sommeil volontairement dompté.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

I can today LEGALLY walk into a gun show, uh, pass the background check, and buy a dozen guns, walk out and sell them to criminal elements, who will use them for bad things.

These same six banks control 95 percent of all derivatives and hold more than 40 percent of all bank deposits in the United States.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

I often say beating Trump won't end climate change, but it's a critical first step. Last week, Trump reversed the rule requiring power plants to reduce the amount of mercury and other pollutions that are pumping into the air. Pollution that is bad for human health, to state the obvious, and it's wrong. It's a step backwards.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

Bringing back something akin to Glass-Steagall would clearly help limit risk in the system. And that's a very good and worthy goal. Letting banks sell securities and insurance products and services allowed them to grow too big too fast and fueled a culture that put profit and pay over prudence.

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.