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Quotes About Regulation

when they put up the sea barriers the mayor's office started slapping protection orders on everything and turned Manhattan into a theme-park version of itself: no life, no change, no danger, just heritage.
~ Eddie Robson
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
~ Edith Hamilton
There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.
~ Edward Abbey
When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
~ Edward Abbey
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
~ Edward Albee
The law is not concerned with trifles.
~ Anonymous
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.
~ Anonymous
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.
~ Anonymous
According to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
~ Anonymous
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.
~ Anonymous
Where no law is, there is no transgression.
~ Anonymous
Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
~ Anonymous
De minimis non curat lex [The law is not concerned with trifles].
~ Anonymous: Latin
Spontaneous feelings signify the overall state of life regulation of an organism as good, bad, or in between.
~ António R. Damásio
competition policy should embody explicit distributional concerns. It
~ Anthony B. Atkinson
Now he proclaimed himself the son of Neptune, took to wearing a dark blue cloak (instead of a commander's regulation purple)
~ Anthony Everitt
Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.
~ Ro Khanna
It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.
~ Michael O'Rielly
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
~ John Ashcroft
The Federal Communications Commission, where I have the pleasure of serving, generally has done a good job of providing an environment for Wi-Fi to flourish in the U.S.
~ Michael O'Rielly
Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.
~ Julius Genachowski
The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.
~ Robin Li
We will hold Planned Parenthood accountable for knowingly endangering their patients by providing illegal abortions at a facility that was not properly licensed nor prepared to handle an emergency.
~ Matt Bevin
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
~ Ben Bernanke