Quotes About Regulation

We want to be one of the most crypto-forward and technological cities in the country. So we're looking at... creating a regulatory framework that makes us the easiest place in the United States to do business if you're doing it in cryptocurrencies.

Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

We need to pass measures that protect consumers' private information while also encouraging new technological innovations.

We have brought down emissions in this country through our legal system and through technological innovation. We can do this on our own. We don't have to have the permission of countries all over the world to do that.

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.

Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Our role as a government is to bring this new technology into the proverbial sunshine so it becomes more accessible, more predictable and more productive for those who choose to participate.

A law has to have teeth.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

Big telecommunications monopolies - many of whom now seek to be content providers as well - shouldn't be able to price others out of the market simply because they can't pay as much as the giants.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I believe that businesses will do what is best for their business. I don't know that the government needs to be stepping in and telling them, 'This is what you will do.'

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?