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Quotes About Regulation

It was designed as a training programme to force citizens to be compliant and obedient to the State.
~ Unknown
when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
~ Dean Smith
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
~ Murray Rothbard
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
~ Andrew Young
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.
~ Herbert Schiller
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
~ Milton Friedman
You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.
~ Ronald Reagan
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.
~ Michele Bachmann
Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection.
~ Jamie Dimon
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
~ James Surowiecki
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
~ Alan Bennett
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
~ Albert J. Nock
We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.
~ Marco Rubio
You can't regulate a soul into a business.
~ Kevin O'Leary
One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.
~ John James Cowperthwaite
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
~ Unknown
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
~ Bill McKibben
When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
~ Christopher Dodd
Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
~ John Stossel
I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
~ John Stossel
We are killing - absolutely killing our energy business in America.
~ Donald Trump
The law is a horrible business.
~ Clarence Darrow
There isn't one thing the federal government does that anybody in Big Business would emulate, at least not in the profit sector.
~ Rush Limbaugh