Quotes About Regulation

Wet gas—gas that flowed mixed with petroleum—was routinely vented into the atmosphere or flared off. Gas was often left to vent into the air, sometimes for years, when drillers abandoned dry holes. A 1935 US Federal Trade Commission report to Congress estimated that 20 percent more gas was wasted nationwide between 1919 and 1930 than was consumed:

lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.

I'm sure, sir, there are all kinds of ethical issues. But in the end, it's for legislators to decide how these things get regulated, not people like me. For now, I just want to learn as much as I can, so I can take my understanding to the next level.

The government, in effect, declared privacy privatized.

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It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

The law always limits every power it gives.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

Power should be a check on power.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.