Quotes About Regulation

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Many people say that in a liberalised world there is little for the government to do, but the fact is that there is much for the government to do in fewer areas. One such area is to provide infrastructure.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy.

We can't have the DNC deciding how big companies behave. That's called fascism.

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

We are way overstepping bounds as federal legislators.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.