Quotes About Regulation

Who watches the watchmen?

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

In every area of politics, the goal is control.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Where there is no common power, there is no law

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?