Quotes About Regulation

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

I support the Volcker rule, but there needs to be proper definitions around the Volcker rule so that banks can understand exactly what they can do and what they can't do, and that they can provide the necessary function of liquidity in customer markets.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors from having any involvement with the industry.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

In the past, people have had to hire lawyers or consultants to try to figure out whether or not their property contains a federal waterway. We want to make sure that the definition is clear and concise.

It's impossible for the government to curb property prices.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

People have described my proposal to ban smartphones for kids as mad, but why would we want children to have unsupervised access to the Internet? I predict most of my 'far-out' ideas will be the norm before long.

I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.

Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.