Quotes About Regulation

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Less government in business and more business in government.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.