Quotes About Regulation

It's legal because it's not illegal.

Trucks hauling coal that weighs a hundred tons, racing across old, twenty-ton bridges still used by school buses, and absolutely ignoring every rule of the road. If there's an accident, it's usually bad. In West Virginia, they're killing one innocent driver per week. The trucker swears he was doing nothing wrong, his buddy backs him up, there are no other witnesses, so the jury falls in line with Big Coal.

the proliferation of the federal criminal code, now at twenty-seven thousand pages and counting.

This is Indian land, Ms. Stoltz, and all the rules that govern an orderly society, all the things you believe in, simply don't apply here. We govern ourselves. We make the laws. Neither the State of Florida nor the federal government has much say in what we do, especially when it comes to running the casino.

It is not unusual for the question to be raised, "Is the Sabbath a law that we Christians have to keep?" The answer is that if we have to be reminded, commanded, or coerced to observe it, it ceases to serve its function. The Sabbath is not the sort of thing that should have to be regulated by rules. It is the way we acknowledge that God is on the throne, that this world is his world, that our time is his gift to us.

But I also think the doctrine of laissez faire, carried to its extreme, is equally repugnant. Too many capitalists use laissez faire as an excuse to gouge the public and exploit the poor.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

Too big to fail' takes responsibility for the supervision of credit risks away from market participants and places it more or less exclusively in the hands of regulators: a duty that in this instance (and many others) they were not capable of discharging.

Recurrent descent into insanity is not a wholly attractive feature of capitalism.

Regulation and more orthodox economic knowledge are not what protect the individual and the financial institution when euphoria returns, leading on as it does to wonder at the increase in values and wealth, to the rush to participate that drives up prices, and to the eventual crash and its sullen and painful aftermath.

Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.

For a long time the New York Stock Exchange looked with suspicion on the investment trusts; only in 1929 was fisting permitted.

In Switzerland, it is illegal to keep just one guinea pig.

Portugal is the only country in the world where all drugs are legal.

Dildos are illegal in Texas.

an epidemic so extreme that New York City had required people to obtain passes to travel.

in New York State coughing or sneezing without covering the face was now punishable by a year in jail and a $500 fine

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.