Quotes About Regulation

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'

Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

Bernie Madoff... was regulated up and down and every which way, and it didn't do any good - he ran away with everyone's money.

We had a very strict upbringing.

Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.

The tattoos on my legs started because they didn't let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.

Occupational licensing laws - in trades like moving companies, realtors, hair dressers, limousine services, beauticians, physical therapy, and on and on - stunt small business start ups, destroy jobs, and raise prices for lower-income consumers.

The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so. But when there are significant financial developments, it's incumbent on us to ask ourselves what is causing them.

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.