Quotes About Regulations

We also proposed limits on penalties imposed on borrowers who prepaid their mortgages.

Guidance has less legal force than regulations, but it still carries considerable weight with bank examiners.

Banks have spent hundreds of millions of dollars complying with the new rules and are not looking for a rollback.

A few news articles noted that the bill largely reflected regulations that the Fed had already adopted, but for the most part our contributions were ignored.

Europeans hoped that their new currency—in combination with the harmonization of regulations and the removal of restrictions on the movement of people, goods, and financial capital across European borders—would convey some of the same economic advantages enjoyed by the United States, with its single currency and open borders between states.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free market and some regulations which are essential in order to safeguard the interests of consumers and of people in general.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.

If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.