Quotes About Regulation

Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of behavior.

almost all people who hurt themselves on purpose do so at least in part to regulate their emotions.

Why don't we pass a law that says when you borrow money to buy somebody else and cannibalize him, the interest payments on those loans are not deductible? That would get the excesses out of the system pretty fast. Right now, if you want to buy up a competitor, generally you can't. That would violate the antitrust laws. But if you want to buy a company that does something else entirely, that's okay. Where's the sense in that?

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders

Control yourself. You'll spurt.

We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

By 1955 thirteen states had passed laws regulating the publication, distribution, and sale of comic books. Leading intellectuals, including C. Wright Mills, praised Wertham's efforts.70

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Considering the hazard of monotony…the most serious fault in our zoning laws lies in the fact that they permit an entire area to be devoted to a single use.

I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand.

There's no such thing as semi-legal.

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual opportunity and economic freedom.

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.

While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.