Quotes About Regulation

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

I'm not one to say many good things about Obamacare, but one of the nice things in it is it does give a tremendous amount of authority to the secretary of HHS.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Budgets were originally designed as control mechanisms. As such they are traps …

China into something resembling a free-market autocracy.

What people want, above all, is order.

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused," he once wrote. "Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Stephen P. Halbrook

Laws are cheap of passage, costly of enforcement. They do not execute themselves.

Children act up because they are overstimulated and need help to calm down.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

Maybe it's time to take a lot closer look at the bureaucratic decisions being made by some of our governmental agencies and to start reducing their powers back to where the citizens control instead of being controlled.