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Quotes About Regulation

I never exceed the posted speed limit.
~ Jason Priestley
I think the speed limit should be increased by 20 km/h on every single road - that would save me so much money.
~ Scott McGillivray
There are more repercussions for a person being a chronic speeding violator in our country, than there is for a big bank being a chronic violator of S.E.C. rules!
~ Martin O'Malley
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
~ Byron White
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
~ Lee Child
It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
~ Bill Scott
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
~ Jon Meacham
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
~ Frederic Bastiat
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
~ Harold H. Greene
The Porter Ranch situation is the BP oil spill on land.
~ Erin Brockovich
Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
~ Steven Hatfill
We will follow in letter and spirit whatever the RBI rules and guidelines are - whether at the holding company level or individual company level.
~ Ajay Piramal
Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.
~ Anne Wojcicki
It bothers me when people spoil the market.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
~ Dora Russell
In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
~ Charles W. Pickering
Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
~ Jerry Brown
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.
~ Steven Magee
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
~ Ronald Reagan
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
~ Robert Benchley
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
No man is free who cannot control himself.
~ Pythagoras
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
~ Harry S Truman