Quotes About Regulation

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

I was literally sued - drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby - all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn't shoot guns in city parks.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

There are not sufficient regulatory frameworks to handle the amount of power that companies like Facebook have, particularly in the United States.

Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

There should be a certification process to suggest if a particular film is suitable for 12-year-olds, 15-year-olds or 18-year-olds. The same thing I think applies for the Internet.

In addition to their risky investments, the big banks have a history of breaking the law whenever it suits their purpose, which is to make more money.

'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' was the only time I've been directed properly.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.