Quotes About Regulation

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare.

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?

Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it's created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.

We spend too much, we borrow too much, and we distort the markets. The bigger the distortions have lasted, the bigger the bust will be.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

The U.K. is open for investment, but not for exploitation.

You know, unfortunately, as to PFOS, it's starting to look like all of us. This is all of our problems. You know, all of us have been exposed to some degree to these same chemicals.