Quotes About Regulation

There ought to be a law against necessity.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.

They need to enforce how and who to give guns to. But there are Americans like me who are responsible, and they shouldn't take that away. If they outlaw guns, they won't take mine.

Not everything people do is good - people make Coca Cola and some people want it and some people don't, but we don't outlaw it.

There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.

In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to do the honorable and decent thing.

Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

Ultimately, he decreed that anyone who published a book without prior approval would be excommunicated.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Back home, being a nanny—or a governess, as we often say—is a recognized profession, regulated by strict laws. A nanny hopeful must train for three years at an accredited nanny college. I was surprised when I came here to find that you need a license to file nails but nothing to look after children.

You can eat whatever and whenever you want, so long as it's during meal hours in the cafeteria.

The damage caused by opioids is largely caused by their prohibition

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.