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Quotes About Regulations

Politics in modern America has become a lucrative business, an industry that has less to do with policy and a lot more to do with accessing money and favors. As we will see, bills and regulations are often introduced not to effect policy change, but as vehicles for shaking down people for those money and favors.
~ Peter Schweizer
Think of it, half the race is over, and I still stand here at the starting line—me, the first one out of his swaddling clothes and into his track suit! a hundred and fifty-eight points of I.Q., and still arguing with the authorities about the rules and regulations! disputing the course to be run! calling into question the legitimacy of the track commission!
~ Philip Roth
If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in the universities. Government lent powerful reinforcement to the new concept of university regulations and funding that favored social justice over knowledge or merit.
~ David Horowitz
The NCAA has its rules. It's our job to abide by them.
~ Ezekiel Elliott
We simply believe that everyone who lives in our state needs to abide by our laws.
~ Sonny Perdue
Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it's going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.
~ Sunil Chhetri
Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
At the end of the day, the Army is a standards-based organization.
~ Mark Esper
Church teaching misled people into believing that by following such regulations they merited God's grace and favor. Such a theory is entirely contrary to the Gospel, overturns the all-sufficient merit of Jesus Christ, and replaces Him with human works
~ Unknown
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)
~ Unknown
he will then deliver a totally redundant speech about all the things you're not allowed to take inside: scissors, swords, knives, guns, bombs, ballistic missiles, tactical nuclear weapons, etc. Then you
~ Unknown
Only after TBT was found to deform shells and cause reproductive failures in commercial oysters did bans begin, in fits and starts and weak regulations that exempted the largest ships. Not until 2008 did international treaties ban the compound once and for all. In another decade, researchers would find increasing evidence that organotins may threaten human health, too, notably in disrupting hormone and reproductive systems. Mollusks were again prophetic in their burden.
~ Unknown
The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
~ Neal Boortz
While I originally sought broader reforms to the Kid Vid regulations, what we have ended up with is a reasoned and balanced compromise. In the end, this effort takes modest but important steps toward a freer television market, and it's a deal for which nearly all sides can claim some measure of victory, especially the children.
~ Michael O'Rielly
When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.
~ Mitch Kapor
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
~ Fritz Kreisler
Public companies, which sell stock on the open market, must file a series of reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each year if they have at least 500 investors or at least $10 million in assets. Smaller companies that have incorporated and sold stock must report to the state in which they incorporated, but they aren't required to file with the SEC. You can find more details about the SEC's reporting requirements for public companies in Chapters 3 and 19.
~ Unknown
As early as 1212 their craft had been subject to building regulations that required, for example, that roofs should be covered with non-flammable materials such as stone or tiles, not thatch, and that privies had to be sited well within the plot boundary. Judging by the repetition of these rules over the years, they don't appear to have been strictly observed.
~ Unknown
I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
~ Victoria Justice
The departments are shit; decrees are shit.
~ Unknown
Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.
~ Scott McNealy
The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
~ Mark Levin
There are many persons driving automobiles in this city who ought not to drive.
~ Deborah Blum
An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.
~ Genzebe Dibaba