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Quotes About Regulation

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
~ George Stigler
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
~ Scott McNealy
My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.
~ Elayne Boosler
Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.
~ David Harsanyi
You can't legislate against stupidity.
~ Jesse Ventura
Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
~ Charles Inglis
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
~ Chief Joseph
Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.
~ Wayne LaPierre
In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.
~ Prashant Bhushan
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
~ Wayne Rogers
A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.
~ Barry Gardiner
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
~ Rima Fakih
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
~ Bethany McLean
There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.
~ O. J. Mayo
And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
~ Tupac Shakur
Las Nuevas Leyes de 1542, sobre el gobierno de las colonias españolas
~ Tzvetan Todorov
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~ Unknown
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
~ Unknown
The law is a tedious profession and is relieves the boredom by its own little comedies
~ V.S. Pritchett
Long standing medical tyranny is about to be extended and to become food tyranny.
~ Unknown
Temporary measures (as introduced by governments) are never temporary; they invariably become permanent.
~ Unknown