Quotes About Regulations

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.

Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.

Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.

In Holland, every Monday evening my creative team meets to discuss fresh new ideas. We try to look at what's happening in the world. Are there trends? Are there new developments we should be aware of? And regularly we heard that people are uncertain about the future. People are sick and tired of the rules and regulations.

Laws are inoperative in war

seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Every sphere of activity has a set of rules. Politics is no different.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Aren't all laws simply man's attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not "legislation" simply our combined agreement as to what is "right" and "wrong"? Yes. And certain civil laws—rules and regulations—are required in your primitive society. (You understand that in nonprimitive societies such laws are unnecessary. All beings regulate themselves.)

I checked my speed, but I was only doing ten mph over the limit, which in Georgia means you're obstructing the flow of traffic.

The word "personnel" may seem superfluous, but Army regulations prohibit brevity and common sense.

A PRINCE, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusively to this as his peculiar province; for war is the sole art looked for in one who rules, and is of such efficacy that it not merely maintains those who are born Princes, but often enables men to rise to that eminence from a private station;

You can't have good laws if you don't have good armed forces.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.

our imperative to protect life should override all regulations set in place by passing politicians. Everyone needs a place they can call home. It should be as fundamental a right as freedom of speech.