Quotes About Regulation

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

There will be a new regulatory environment and each government will carry it out in different ways, some as partners to business, others as adversaries.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

Other people will reverse-engineer the technology. They'll remove the safeguards, or figure out how to build a clone system that doesn't have them. That's how it always works. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can't control what they do.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100 000 elevator.

If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.

the more rigidly constructed your game is, the more limited it will be.*

All freedoms need to be constricted, otherwise the result is infinite conflict and the triumph of the fittest.

Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

The cable law. Prasar Bharati. The Broadcasting Bill. These are all overlapping things.

I'm not really allowed to drink a lot of caffeine, because I'm 11.

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

It's extremely important for our banks to have more capital, higher quality capital.

I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.

I don't want the government to be censoring people, I don't think there should be censoring boards, but I think that means that we the artists need to be very careful about what we're putting out and what were saying and how we're saying it. And I don't think we're being as careful as we should be.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.

No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.