Quotes About Regulation

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Since JPMorgan Chase announced its surprise $2 billion-and-growing trading loss, there have been renewed calls from economists, pundits, and politicians to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prevented commercial banks from participating in investment banking activities.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Proprietary trading does not belong in banks with FDIC insurance.

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

Trust is good, but control is better.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.

As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.

Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

An arbitrary age limit for children should not be set by the legislature or Congress "any more than you can tell when a pig becomes a hog," stated W. W. Kitchin, the legal counsel for the Cotton Manufacturers in 1916. Yes, he actually said that. That same year, a company doctor testified, "Eleven hours' work a day is not excessive for a twelve-year-old girl.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where everything is planned: I would much rather have liberty to make a fool of myself than become an ideal citizen by regulation. - George Taylor

As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?