Quotes About Regulation

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Rest assured, the government is ready to support and enhance the competitiveness of the biotechnology industry.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Government is an unnecessary evil.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.