Quotes About Regulation

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

NRA - Nuts Running America.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

The safety of the State is the highest law.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.