Quotes About Regulation

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

Government on its own is always inefficient.

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.

If you're successful in the market, it should be because you have the best products. Then your customers like you, not because then you cut corners, or you get a tax break, or you don't inform authorities about how things actually are.

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

The economy is this huge innovation discovery machine. What the government can do usefully is to focus some of that effort where things turn out better for everyone.

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.

There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.

Far from doing what it can to ensure that the companies and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are European, the E.U. actively stifles innovation.

In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

My instinct is to be very controlling.