Quotes About Regulation

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

The capping of cash transactions will help the banks reduce cash intensity.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

Creating a Financial Transactions Tax would go a long way to curbing short-term speculative trading, including high-frequency trading.

If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.

Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and we don't get to decide how transparent they should be. The tech companies do that all by themselves.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people on board and that want private parties, and that's in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

The cost of airline tickets will never be transparent as long as the Department of Transportation requires airlines to hide taxes, surcharges, and fees from consumers.