Quotes About Regulation

The religious right is quick to extol the principle of free speech when it comes to, say, public school officials preaching to children in their care or shouting at women through bullhorns outside of reproductive health clinics. And yet they are eager to regulate and restrict the speech of medical professionals delivering reproductive health services.

A lightly regulated charter school industry, they realized, could achieve many of the same goals as voucher programs. They could drain funding from traditional public schools, deregulate the education sector, and promote ideological or even religious curricula—all without provoking the kind of resistance that vouchers received.

the heart of all attachment is fear regulation

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Prohibition! Everyone loves a flapper dress or a fake tommy gun, but who remembers the thousands of people who went blind drinking unregulated wood alcohol?

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

I've always been about less government.

My definition of success is control.

Stock watering, bribery, and stock corners were all methods to his madness, but for good reason. "My God, you don't suppose you can run a railroad in accordance with the statutes of New York, do you?

The Law thereby prohibits three contemporary monetary phenomena that have contributed so heavily to the economically precarious position of modern nations: fiat money, fractional reserve banking, and deficit spending.

Some decry the law as an imposition of religion. But all law imposes religion in that law is necessarily religious, for all law is an expression of morality.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Ante la burocracia somos todos extranjeros, (...) la burocracia es, en esencia (y en eso radica su utilidad), un código ajeno.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

There were five commissioners.

It's not worth it trying to push back because they hold all the cards. They've got paid lawyers and regulators with no personal financial stake in this building like we do. They can sit at their desks and tell us what we can and can't do, and they can drag this out for years or until we're both bankrupt.

A now voluminous line of inquiry, initiated in a series of pioneering papers also written by Roy Baumeister, has established the following important (and at the time, unexpected) truth about willpower: You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

An even earlier example was the rise of dark pool stock trading. In 1979, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) instituted Rule 19c3, which allowed stocks listed on one exchange, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), to be traded off-exchange. Many large institutions moved their trading large blocks to these dark pools, where they traded peer to peer with far lower costs than traditional exchange-based trading.