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Quotes About Regulations

It's much safer to break a law knowingly than to do so through ignorance.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
~ Joyce Meyer
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.
~ Rick Warren
If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
~ Winston Churchill
Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
The wage controls ended, but benefits remained. In most cases, benefit
~ Dennis W. Bakke
We live in a world with a 17th century definition of jurisdiction, an 18th century model for the judiciary, a 19th century model for law enforcement, and a mountain of outdated 20th century styled regulations.
~ Jeffrey Robinson
Holly kicked up her legs behind her, dropping into a steep dive. Diving was against Recon regulations. All approaches were supposed to be controlled and gradual, but what was the point of flying if you couldn't feel the slipstream tugging at your toes?
~ Eoin Colfer
Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
~ Ambrosius Macrobius
At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
~ Jim McKelvey
I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.
~ Charles Schwab
As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.
~ Erna Solberg
I think they need to start doing cageside weigh-ins again. I think that's the best way to go if you really want to see some difference. Cageside weigh-ins; I guarantee you won't see people cutting more than five to eight pounds, and they'll be fighting closer to their natural weight class.
~ Aljamain Sterling
We should make it very clear to Saudi Aramco and others who want to list in London that they are very welcome but we aren't going to overly amend the rules just for one particular listing.
~ Nicky Morgan
Much as criticism can and has been made as to how E.U. law has been created, there is much in it that affects our daily lives for the better and is welcomed by many without them being necessarily aware of where it comes from.
~ Dominic Grieve
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
~ Zac Goldsmith
Dust is part of rural America. It is completely unreasonable for the EPA to put a price tag on communities for carrying out activities essential to their well-being. This is a prime example of federal regulations gone too far.
~ Stephen Fincher
We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
~ Ma Jun
Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.
~ Jim Justice
I think there's too many rules in golf. And I mean that's easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.
~ Tony Finau
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative work cannot be capitalised on.
~ Alok Sharma
The big corporations have a team of lawyers and accountants to help them. It's the small businesses, the mom and pop shops, that get lost in the layers of red tape.
~ Susana Martinez
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
~ James Surowiecki
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
~ Nigel Farage