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Quotes About Regulation

Second, industry structure determines profitability—not, as many people think, whether the industry is high growth or low, high tech or low, regulated or not, manufacturing or service. Structure trumps these other, more intuitive, categories. Third, industry structure is surprisingly sticky.
~ Joan Magretta
angels into nine choirs, listed here in descending order, along with their main duties: Seraphim and Cherubim, who love and worship God; Thrones and Dominions, who regulate angelic duties; Virtues, who work miracles on the earth; Powers, who protect us from demons; Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, who are ministers to and guardians of people.
~ JOAN WESTER ANDERSON
In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.
~ Anna Funder
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."3 Strictly defined, a totalitarian regime is one that bans all institutions apart from those it has officially approved. A totalitarian regime thus has one political party, one educational system, one artistic creed, one centrally planned economy, one unified media, and one moral code.
~ Anne Applebaum
But even in countries that were never occupied by the Red Army and never ruled by Latin American populists, democracy and free markets can produce unsatisfying outcomes, especially when badly regulated, or when nobody trusts the regulators, or when people are entering the contest from very different starting points. The losers of these competitions were always, sooner or later, going to challenge the value of the competition itself.
~ Anne Applebaum
government policy.
~ Anne Applebaum
Elegance is really a kind of control.
~ Anne Rampling ; Anne Rice
Elegance is a kind of control.
~ Anne Rampling ; Anne Rice
The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
~ Annie Dillard
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break
~ Anonymous
I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.
~ Rich Swann
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
~ will.i.am
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
~ Mario Gabelli
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.
~ Elizabeth Warren
If we want the banks to lend - and we all do - if we want the economy to expand - and we all do - do you really want to start confining the banks in their ability to make profits in order to generate more capital to lend out to the people?
~ Scott Garrett
Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.
~ Kevin Hassett
The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
~ Nan Hayworth
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
~ Bob Wells
I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove you've watched the whole programme.
~ Alexander Armstrong
I do not believe that we have to destroy our economy in order to protect our environment. And especially what these programs are asking us to pass that will do nothing to help the environment, but will be devastating for our economy.
~ Marco Rubio
It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.
~ Robert Winston
Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.
~ Dick Durbin
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
~ Don Marquis