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Quotes About Regulation

It was largely a land without Borders - something that attracted him and disturbed him both. The land didn't need laws. But the people did.
~ John Shirley
The fool supply was controlled...
~ John Steinbeck
I AM THE LAW!
~ John Wagner
FAR 91.21 – You must determine that the iPad, as a portable electronic device, does not cause interference in the airplane's communication or navigation equipment.
~ John Zimmerman
Attention leads to connection, connection to regulation, regulation to order, and order to ease (as opposed to dis-ease), or, more colloquially, to health.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.
~ Cathy O'Neil
My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.
~ Ricardo Montalban
My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.
~ Michael Gove
Social control is best managed through fear.
~ Michael Crichton
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
~ Ronald Reagan
In life three things we cannot control or stop Thinking, Talking and feelings.
~ Unknown
As an example, companies would require researchers to compare a new drug with a placebo (sugar pill) instead of with an older drug.
~ Marcia Angell
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
~ Marco Rubio
You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.
~ Marco Rubio
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Children always find ways to subvert while they're busy complying. This child's method of subversion? She would achieve success, but she would treat it like a concession she'd been forced to make. For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required. She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.
~ Margo Jefferson
We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself, and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life. Such
~ Maria Montessori
Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.
~ Mariano Azuela
Petty laws breed great crimes.
~ Unknown
I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.
~ Unknown