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Quotes About Regulation

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.
~ Lisa Scottoline
There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.
~ George W. Bush
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
~ H. L. Mencken
Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
~ Harlan Ellison
A man with a club is a law-maker.
~ Jack London
Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.
~ John Kasich
My mom was definitely very strict with me.
~ Gloria Estefan
We have the best government that money can buy.
~ Mark Twain
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.
~ Chuck Grassley
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
~ Laurie Anderson
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
~ Nathan Meyer Rothschild
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
~ Sam Wyly
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
~ John Maynard Keynes
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
~ Arthur Laffer
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
~ Zach Wamp
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
~ Paul Ryan
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
~ Murray Rothbard
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
~ William Weld
The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.
~ Henry Hazlitt
Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.
~ David Bonderman
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
~ Alan Greenspan
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.
~ Ronald Reagan