Quotes About Regulations

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

In the United States, government regulations are estimated to cost about $7,800 per employee in large businesses and about $10,600 per employee in small businesses.{662} Among other things, this suggests that the existence of numerous government regulations tends to give competitive advantages to big business, since there are apparently economies of scale in complying with these regulations.

Because Texas is the nation's largest purchaser of textbooks, publishers have historically written to the Texas standards.)

It takes analytical skills worthy of a degree in civil engineering to understand when and where one is allowed to leave a car in Montreal.

The sheer number of standards is the biggest impediment to implementing standards

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

On cutting off beer sales after the eighth inning: "Anybody who can't get drunk at the ball game before the eighth inning doesn't belong here.

Some of the wisest auditors say that there are only three internal control objectives: to gain assurance for reliability of financial reporting, compliance with laws and regulations, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. That's it. What you and John are talking about are just different slides of what is called the 'coso Cube.

The opposite of the Third Ideal is someone who values process compliance and TWWADI," he says with a big smile. "You know, 'The Way We've Always Done It.' It's the huge library of rules and regulations, processes and procedures, approvals and stage gates, with new rules being added all the time to prevent the latest disaster from happening again.

Ante Dios sólo hay reglas o en realidad sólo hay una regla y ninguna excepción. Como ignoramos la regla superior inventamos reglas generales que no lo son, y hasta sería posible que, aun para los seres finitos, lo que llamamos reglas no fueran sino excepciones.

Laws ... would be useless on the moon.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist.

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

The entire civil service is like a fortress, made of papers, forms and red tape.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

What Trump is doing is a lot more than just talking, tweets. He is rolling back regulations, standards, destroying lives. This has to be stopped.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

Tenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible.