Quotes About Regulation

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The more laws, the less justice.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

The ban against tall buildings was finally lifted in 1957. Nothing much happened at first; downtown remained stunted compared to most other cities of its size. As developer Robert Maguire put it, Los Angeles seemed destined to be a city "just ten stories high, all over hell and gone.

A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.

The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

You want to be somewhat cautious inasmuch as you can't use the state email for political or campaign business.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

Being a bureaucrat means never having to say you're sorry.

It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.

The judges are trying to make the sports as safe as possible and I was just sorry they thought it necessary to consider me dangerous.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.