Quotes About Regulation

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have to understand wrestling is not a regulated sport.

In Mexico, to become a pro wrestler, you have to have a wrestling license, and to get a license, you have to pass a wrestling test.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

else. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.

Habit is a good servant but a bad master.

We manage what we monitor.

Self-possession depends on its environment.

C'est pourtant fort bête d'être joyeux, à date fixe, par décret du gouvernement. Le peuple est un troupeau imbécile, tantôt stupidement patient et tantôt férocement révolté. (En parlant de la fête nationale et de ses festivités)

C'est pourtant fort bête d'être joyeux, à date fixe, par décret du gouvernement.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict the freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them. How 'free' a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is a political definition.

executive branch of this particular government was not the party but the police, whose "operational activities were not regulated through party channels";

O estado é um monopolista territorial da compulsão: uma agência que se engaja em violações contínuas e institucionalizadas dos direitos de propriedade; uma agência que se dedica à exploração – sob a forma de expropriação, tributação e regulação – dos donos de propriedades privadas.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

We are totally open kimono with regulators.

Light touch regulation means that we create broad regulatory frameworks that can protect consumers to ensure an overall competitive marketplace.

Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.