Quotes About Regulation

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

Good government has to mean less government.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

I'm an American. I'm for prosperity. I've discovered, from 40 years of reporting, that what creates prosperity is limited government.