Quotes About Regulation

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

Separating out banks and investment banks right now under Glass-Steagall would have very big implications to the liquidity and the capital markets and banks being able to perform necessary lending.

Community interest companies are a growing form of regulated social enterprises, and we want to make sure that the rules are as friendly as possible for investors and social enterprises.

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

I'm vociferously against any ban in the society. You have to educate people instead. When you ban something, you invoke in them the curiosity to find more about that.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

Israel is not an anarchy.

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

County jail in some ways can be the most dangerous because it's often the least regulated.

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

If two firms join together, we want their total tax bill to go up because we don't want more big firms. We'd actually like to have lots more small ones.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.

The courts, instead of being constraints on government, have become alternative instruments for the expansion of government.

When used as an instrument of enforcement, the courts have morphed from constraints on government to mechanisms by which the scope of government has enormously expanded.

The same process is unfolding in the early twenty-first century with passage of the Dodd-Frank bill regulating the financial sector: Congress delegated to the regulators the responsibility of writing many of the detailed provisions, which will inevitably be challenged in the courts. Ironically, excessive delegation and vetocracy are intertwined.

Does a red 'Radio Wagon' require an FCC license?

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.