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Quotes About Regulation

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.
~ Thom Hartmann
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.
~ Martin Mayer
I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.
~ Hillary Clinton
Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.
~ Gordon Wu
The 'do nothing everything will be all right' default plan is determined by the IRS and government.
~ Unknown
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
~ John Yudkin
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.
~ Charlie Ergen
What India needs most is a unified food law.
~ Manmohan Singh
Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.
~ Bernie Sanders
The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.
~ Ralph Nader
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.
~ Rebecca West
People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
~ Voltaire
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
~ Pythagoras
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
~ Mark Twain
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
~ Boyd Rice
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
~ Ronald Reagan
Where there is no law there is no freedom.
~ John Locke
Without discipline, there can be no freedom.
~ Nadia Boulanger
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
~ R.J. Rushdoony