Quotes About Regulation

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

To control your hormones is to control your life.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country.

Before 1919, Mexicans who entered the United States at the border did not need to apply for entry.

The result? An increasingly stratified online world in which the rules about what we can say are determined by a motley crew of elected officials and non-elected elites, some of whom have alarmingly close ties to government.

The final conclusion I've made is that we, the people, must decide what comes next. The events of the past decade have brought to the public fore a fairly widespread recognition that certain speech is beyond the pale, but in nearly every instance I have seen, regulatory and legislative proposals to restrict such speech take the wrong aim, punishing companies (and their workers) for errors, or for not moving fast enough, while failing to do anything to address the problems at the root.

They should be transparent about what they censor, provide users with ample notification, and ensure that every user has the right to appeal removals.

Twitter and Facebook, had begun to crack down (albeit somewhat reluctantly) on the American far right the summer prior, their attempts to do so pale in comparison to the resources they put into policing extremist groups elsewhere in the world—or, to put it bluntly, extremist groups that happen to be Muslim and invoke the ire of Western politicians.

Facebook and its counterparts don't operate like courts; there is no case law, no checks and balances, and—until recently—no due process. The judges (content moderators) are not appointed or elected by voters, unlike in well-functioning democracies. There are simply no systems of accountability to the process and, as such, the same image that might be banned for one user can be allowed for another.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act, any person could legally own all sorts of weapons, including machine guns. Yet these guns prompted no school shootings. What

And recall, it was the FDA that approved Vioxx, which led to more than sixty thousand deaths.

The federal government is looking for one obstacle after another to place hurdles before this industry," Nelson warned. "Pretty soon it's going to be air. They're going to say you can't use the air because it belongs to the federal government. It's just ridiculous.

But large fines don't appear to affect the questionable practices of pharmaceutical companies; such practices will not change until drug executives are singled out for punishment.

motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.