Quotes About Regulation

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into

If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.

Open markets are the ideal, but if one guy is cheating the whole time, how is that free trade?

What we need is leadership that can deal with our mess and begin to apply practical solutions to our problems. My goal is not to design hundreds of pages of government regulation and red tape like others propose. We need to outline commonsense policies and then knock some heads together if necessary to make them work. The fact is we are over-regulated. People can't move. They're stymied. Companies can't be built. We're over-regulated.

Although Congress outlawed whipping in 1812, army officers had other means of maintaining discipline. Deprivation of pay or spirits, public penance, and paddling as well as other corporal punishments were common. In more serious cases, the offender might be branded on the face, his ears might be cropped, or he might be executed.

if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be obsessive about the subject. Then to give him the power to tell other people how to run their sex lives, well, that's just asking for trouble. In a way, it's like having a blind person teach Art History, isn't it?

Because of the ascending interactions with higher brain areas, there is no emotion without a thought, and many thoughts can evoke emotions. Because of the lower interactions, there is no emotion without a physiological or behavioral consequence, and many of the resulting bodily changes can also regulate the tone of emotional systems in a feedback manner.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

medical study warned that because the vape liquid contained lipoid components and toxins, when heated they caused an acute chemical inhalation injury to the lungs, or as a federal lawmaker whose daughter had died at a college party after vaping with friends stated, "It poisons and kills our kids from the inside out. This is murder.

The NCOs on his staff were all convinced that his regulation-length brown mustache was the result of the time he spent crawling up the SOCOM acquisition director's ass. This, along with his rodentlike face, led to his nickname: Gerbil.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

The nine largest banks, which received $125 billion from TARP, were collectively paying dividends of more than $25 billion a year.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

Globalization, even if its nature and timing are still very much up for debate, has the salutary effect of challenging our most basic assumptions about space and time and therefore about society. The functioning of society depends on the regulation of space and time.

You have to inhale a lot of those chemicals before they can take effect. They're called dioxins, apparently. The family planning officers there are very relaxed, because they know that however hard a man tries, he's unlikely to get his wife pregnant. What a wonderful place it sounds!

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

do what the government demanded because they could no longer conceive of an alternative.

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.

Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin