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Quotes About Regulation

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
~ Leonid Hurwicz
America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.
~ Sheila Jackson Lee
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.
~ Don Winslow
Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
~ Adam Cohen
We can protect the Second Amendment, we can protect our constitutional rights, and we can still do something about this public health crisis that is gun violence in our communities.
~ Seth Moulton
Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.
~ Eliot Spitzer
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
~ Martin Heinrich
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
~ Ted Nugent
What responsible gun owner thinks everyone and anyone should have access to a firearm without a little bit of precaution taken to make sure that those who have a history of violent harm can't buy a firearm?
~ Abigail Spanberger
Individuals who have demonstrated serious violent behaviour or have been involved in gang activity have forfeited the right to ever be trusted to own a firearm.
~ Andrew Scheer
No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
~ Vladimir Putin
Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn't have the same controls. It's not going to happen.
~ Jamie Dimon
The regulator banned cryptocurrency... then there was an order from the Supreme Court. So, in the absence of any strong law, it was very important for us to come out with a comprehensive law-one for the private digital currency and second for the government for its digital form of currency, or the virtual currency.
~ Anurag Thakur
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
~ Marsha Blackburn
I would like to implore all the governments of the world to come together to form a protocol to regulate virtual currency.
~ Ravi Subramanian
In March 2013, FinCEN issued guidance for virtual currency businesses - giving the industry some degree of clarity about how to be compliant on the federal level.
~ Perianne Boring
Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.
~ Amy Klobuchar
The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.
~ Luther Strange
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
~ Peter DeFazio
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
~ Eric Alterman
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
~ Rand Paul
Virtually every aspect of our commercial lives have been given away to be run by European project over which we had so little say.
~ Nigel Farage
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~ Adam Smith
Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
~ Rand Paul