Quotes About Regulation

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

True regulation is for the equal benefit of the consumer and the investor, and the only man who will suffer from true regulation is the speculator or the unscrupulous promoter who levies tribute equally from the man who buys the service and from the man who invests his savings in this great industry.

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime, It don't prohibit worth a dime, It's filled our land with vice and crime. Nevertheless, we're for it.

From where most hospital managers sit, Disney looks like a picnic compared to the fiscal, legal, and regulatory nightmare they face every day in a high-risk environment over which they have very little of the kind of control they would have at Disney.

Dictatorships always immediately ban short selling, since it is axiomatic with them that no professional pessimists are going to be tolerated.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Law and Charity Are Not the Same

You say There are persons who have no money, and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon's sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according to a person familiar with Amazon's finances at the time.

It's a tale that describes a period in business history when the old laws no longer seemed to apply to the world's most dominant companies.

Master your emotions.

The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom.

Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.

Progress is learning to control your world.

The law is made by men, so it is not perfect either.

Banning books is tricky business, Vin—the more stink the Ministry makes about a text, the more attention it will draw, and the more people will be tempted to read it.

You have not done the proper paperwork in this kingdom to kill that child

In fact, research shows that the process of labeling emotional experience is related to greater emotion regulation and psychosocial well-being.

Perhaps emotion, when it is tightly disciplined, turns into worry.

That's the trouble about regulated ideas: the phrases are never original, the same words keep recurring.