Quotes About Regulation

Where law ignores instinct, instinct rebels and subverts order.

Meanwhile, our patchwork regulatory system insures that no single institution is keeping track of how many deaths and injuries befall healthy subjects in clinical trials. Nobody appears to be tracking how many clinical investigators are incompetent of have lost their licenses, or have questionable disciplinary records.. Nobody is monitoring the effect that so many trials have on the health of professional guinea pigs. In fact, nobody is even certain whether the trials generate reliable data.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.

The permutations of rent-seeking are as many as the administrative state is vast. Rent-seeking is the activity of attempting to increase one's income without increasing the quantity or quality of the goods or services offered to customers. It is the attempt to manipulate public power for private advantage—to get government to improve your economic circumstances by conferring a benefit on you or a handicap on your competitors.

Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.

much of Silicon Valley's investment has gone to some eighty "unicorns," with valuations over a billion dollars, which have shunned the overregulated U.S. public market. This is a bizarre and unsustainable situation. Venture capital cannot function without liquidity events. Unless the United States follows China and begins to deregulate its public companies, China will soon take the lead in venture capital as well. The

The government doesn't want any system of transmitting information to remain unbroken, unless it's under its own control.

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.

The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.