Quotes About Regulation

from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn't simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

and there can't be an area of human activity as utterly boring as the law.

To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you're always likely to run afoul of some agency or other.

Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16 500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.

Lay ley es siempre triste, don Augusto

For example, your tenant in a wheelchair wants to widen the doorways, lower the bathroom and kitchen countertops, and perhaps install a ramp. The ADA pretty much says you must allow your tenant to make these changes at their expense, providing they return your unit to its original condition when they move out.

This system could be considered illegal, because if you have more than three rental units, you must rent your unit to the first qualified applicant.

this one subject and challenge involves your local landlord-tenant laws.

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

There are a few monopolies that are allowed to exist with the government's blessing. One is the United States Postal Service, better known as the post pffice.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

There's no law against writing a boring book…but there ought to be.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

The burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.