Quotes About Regulation

To believe that market competition curbs the excesses of big, powerful corporations demands a leap of faith that history does not support. It's a peculiar form of market fundamentalism that I can no longer embrace.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.

A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it was perfectly legal. His hunting partner was likely to be the county sheriff.

A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

The renunciation of the child's sexual ambitions and dyadic unity with the mother is established through the father's presence, which stands for the regulating, organizing, symbolizing functions of language itself. Lacan

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Every law requires a response

What I came to dislike about Little League that spring was not the regulation per se, or the fathers--whose consciousness had generally been raised at least a little bit--or the tedium, or the low quality of play, or the pain of watching my son strike out a lot. It was the way I got reminded, every game, that this was the world my children lived in: the world in which the wild watershed of childhood had been brought fully under control of the adult Corps of Engineers.

It was a stock answer and I noted that going beyond government requirements when there were no such requirements meant nothing.

justice is incidental to law and order.

government, a bureaucracy, a business. When there are no rules then corruption sets in like rust.

Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler

they'll reregulate within ten years. There'll be a string of crashes, and they'll do it. the free marketeers will scream, but the fact is, free markets don't provide safety. Only regulation does that. You want safe food, you better have inspectors. You want safe water, you better have an EPA. You want a safe stock market, you better have an SEC. And you want safe airlines, you better regulate them too. Believe me, they will.

The free marketeers will scream, but the fact is, free markets don't provide safety. Only regulation does that. You want safe food, you better have inspectors. You want safe water, you better have an EPA. You want a safe stock market, you better have the SEC. And you want safe airlines, you better regulate them, too. Believe me, they will.

Marino Santos y sus hombres resumieron sus funciones en cinco elementos esenciales: 1. Controlar lo que se vende. 2. Controlar cómo se vende. 3. Controlar cómo se planifica. 4. Controlar cómo se construye y se instala. 5. Controlar cómo se controla. Cuando un contratista perdía de vista alguno de estos cinco puntos de control, como los llamaban Marino Santos y sus hombres, el trabajo no finalizaba como se había acordado. Eso no sería

My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies.

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

Dark pools were another rogue spawn of the new financial marketplace. Private stock exchanges, run by the big brokers, they were not required to reveal to the public what happened inside them. They reported any trade they executed, but they did so with sufficient delay that it was impossible to know exactly what was happening in the broader market at the moment the trade occurred.

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.

The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.

Thus the only Goldman Sachs employee arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of a financial crisis Goldman had done so much to fuel was the employee Goldman asked the FBI to arrest.