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Quotes About Regulation

For over a decade, the top 1% of income earners have seen their pay skyrocket, riding a wave of lobbyist-sponsored financial de-regulation. For the remaining 99%, wages have stagnated, and employment has fallen off a cliff.
~ Reshma Saujani
When I was born, the speed limit was two miles an hour. They'd only just repealed the law where a man had to walk in front of every motor car waving a flag.
~ Henry Allingham
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
~ Victoria Pendleton
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
~ Abraham Lincoln
As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.
~ Vitalik Buterin
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.
~ Milton Friedman
It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
~ Margrethe Vestager
It is time to stop the anarchy on the Internet. We cannot allow this great technological achievement of man to be turned into an information garbage heap.
~ Alexander Lukashenko
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.
~ Wayne Messam
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
~ Viktor Orban
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
~ John Bates Clark
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
~ Blanche Lincoln
We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
~ Fred Upton
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
~ Robert J. Bentley
These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
~ Karen Handel
If we can rid the world of financial centres that thrive on lack of transparency, non-cooperation, and weak regulation, an important step towards a fairer and cleaner world economy will have been achieved.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.
~ Milos Forman
Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.
~ Robert Reich
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
~ Vaclav Klaus
After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
~ Tom Hooper
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
~ Steven Spielberg
When I have people like Planned Parenthood intentionally not following the law, that's where the state will be involved.
~ Matt Bevin
The overly engineered, overly regulated market that Obamacare created resulted in restrictive health care plans that provide little choice, and coverage that is far too costly for what the plans offer.
~ Scott Gottlieb