Quotes About Regulation

On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

I come from a state with many sound, responsible banks.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

In Australia you're not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can't do it - help yourself to mussels and things like that because there's hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.

People have a right to be able to bear arms.

I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

And I have often wished, that a Law were enacted to hang up half a Dozen Bankers every year;

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

Regulated rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.

It's a good thing that the sheep are all so law abiding

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

100 percent of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public

When traditional rules reach so far down that they touch a child's lemonade stand, things have probably gotten a bit out of control.

that states have often passed laws against fortune-tellers and prophets of doom.

Obamacare is, 'Patient, heal yourself.'

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.

Most people don't realize how regulated the pawn industry is, especially where I'm at in Nevada.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.