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Quotes About Regulation

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.
~ Theresa May
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
~ Irwin Schiff
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
~ Thomas Friedman
Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
~ George Will
The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.
~ Geoff Davis
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
~ Sonny Perdue
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
~ James Surowiecki
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
~ John Conyers
Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.
~ Gisela Stuart
Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.
~ Bill Toomey
Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
~ Suzan DelBene
The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.
~ Titus Welliver
I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
~ Gerry Harvey
The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.
~ Tony Pulis
Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.
~ Winnie Harlow
Incumbents have long promoted regulation in the name of protecting consumers when their actual goal is to block new entrants and stifle competition.
~ Ajit Pai
Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.
~ Marvin Ammori
Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.
~ Marvin Ammori
As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.
~ Todd Young
When President Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
I won't let my daughters go on screens at least half an hour before bed because I think it stimulates them a little bit.
~ Tess Daly
Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put a stop to it. We might even close down your paper, because these things can only lead to a lot of riots and bloodshed.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
~ Kary Mullis