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Quotes About Regulation

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
~ Thomas Sowell
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
~ John Stossel
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
~ John Stuart Mill
The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
~ John C. Calhoun
Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week
~ Art Buchwald
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
~ Tacitus
The government is worst which governs most.
~ James Cook
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
~ Frederick W. Smith
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
~ Glenn Reynolds
Government is not competent enough to regulate.
~ James Cook
There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
~ Penn Jillette
I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.
~ Michael Badnarik
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
~ Peter Diamandis
It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.
~ Robert H. Jackson
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.
~ Michael Hudson
A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy
~ Bob Dole
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
~ Reince Priebus
It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.
~ Carly Fiorina
The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble
~ Dmitry Medvedev
Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.
~ Ed Crane
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
~ Edmund Burke
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
~ Isabel Paterson
I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.
~ Rand Paul
You don't grow the economy by growing government.
~ Robert Metcalfe