Quotes About Regulation

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.

The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist.

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means.

You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

We've got to make sure tech companies - all of them - aren't taking steps that will place content beyond the reach of the courts.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

The reality is that unless you understand the regulatory environment and payment structure, you can't revolutionize it. I think most tech companies and startups have come to this realization: that you have to partner with people in the ecosystem.

No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.

If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull money from the pockets of the poor. This problem generally goes unrecognized by policy makers.

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.