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Quotes About Regulation

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.
~ Jenson Button
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
~ Jeremy Bentham
The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.
~ Jerry Coleman
Without adjustments to our economic system and regulatory policies, we may be in for an extended period of social turmoil.
~ Jerry Kaplan
The rule of law is the essence of freedom.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
~ Jesse Ventura
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free — if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. Prohibiting something doesn't make it go away. Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.
~ Jesse Ventura
Takt" is business jargon. Defined as "the desired time that it takes to make one unit of production output," it is used to regulate the pace of work.)
~ Jessica Bruder
I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.
~ Erik Larson
Yet gun dealers sell guns in America the way Rite Aid sells toothpaste, denying at every step of the way the true nature of the products they sell and absolving themselves of any and all responsibility for their role in the resulting mayhem.
~ Erik Larson
Anyone wishing to bring his own Kodak to the fair had to buy a permit for two dollars
~ Erik Larson
The best way to get cooperation among volatile, erotic primates is to regulate sexual relations—who can mate with whom, who can live with whom regularly, and so on. By setting up such customs and marriage taboos you establish families and provide sexual partners between families. In a word, the invention of sexual codes establishes harmony and cooperation in mating units, and in bands composed of such units.
~ Ernest Becker
I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?
~ Ernest Hemingway
we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.
~ Ernesto Spinelli
Rather than creating more competition, it has created immensely powerful new monopolists like Google and Amazon.
~ Andrew Keen
being sacked. Major's hopes for central regulation withering away echo Lenin, who hoped for a 'withering away' of the Soviet
~ Andrew Marr
Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.
~ Andrew P. Harris
Republicans remained purely about small government until they started their unlawful and unnecessary wars. The first was Nixon's and later Reagan's and Bush's War on Drugs, and the second was George W. Bush's War on Terror. These wars enlarged government, increased spending, enhanced regulation, took away the rights of the American people, and were largely ineffective.
~ Andrew P. Napolitano
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~ Andrew Roberts
In return for stopping at a red light, we count on other drivers to do the same thing, and we can drive through green lights. But for lawbreakers we need policemen, and with them, as with supervisors, we introduce overhead.
~ Andrew S. Grove
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~ Andrew Tate
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
~ Andrew Young