Quotes About Regulation

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to solve specific problems, we do not create others.

The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the car he just bought, you don't go to the car manufacturer and say, 'Hey, we're shutting you down.'

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.