Quotes About Regulation

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

If you hit the table after missing a ball, you get fined. If you swear, you get fined. You can't even tweet what you're thinking without getting fined. Players can't show their personality and therefore fans can't relate to them.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.

To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.