Quotes About Regulation

When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became

In 1649 the laws were tightened even further—to the extent that swearing at a parent became punishable by death.

High-profile accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States, Chernobyl in the former U.S.S.R., and Fukushima in Japan put a spotlight on all these risks. There are real problems that led to those disasters, but instead of getting to work on solving those problems, we just stopped trying to advance the field.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

This is the opposite of the free market.

Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.

La magia no es respetable, caballero. No es... —buscó la palabra— seria. El gobierno no puede involucrarse en esas cosas.

Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.

BBLR means that if the tax base—that is, the total amount of income, or sales, or property that can be taxed—is kept as large as possible, then the tax rate—that is, the percentage that people have to give to the government—can be kept low. Virtually all economists and tax experts agree that this is the best way to run a tax regime.

Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre "anti-complexity clause," Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades after the passage of the 1986 reforms, the U.S. tax code is a mockery of the BBLR principle.

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.

He said having a smoking section in a restaurant was just like having a pissing section in a swimming pool.

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

miles a day, which is illegal in most towns. Even if it's not illegal, it's dangerous. So you have to figure out substitute behaviors that keep your dog happy

He let out a grim laugh. Nothing could have been further from the truth. God only knew how long it was going to take for his traitorous body to settle down enough to escort her to supper. Oh yes, that would be genteel. Here, take my arm, but do ignore my raging erection. Someone really needed to invent a better pair of breeches.

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

Se sabe que las bicicletas han tratado por todos los medios de remediar su triste condición social. Pero en absolutamente todos los países de la tierra está prohibido entrar con bicicletas.

We're controlled more than any other professional sport. We're told what to wear, when to wear it, what we're allowed to say in our interviews.

One thing that we've invested a lot of in, that we all live by, is the power of the commissioner.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.