Quotes About Government

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

The Democratic plan in the 'Affordable Care Act' has, I would say, more government support, more government regulation around trying to protect the finances of individuals, trying to protect people who had pre-existing conditions, making sure that they could actually be in an insurance market and not set off to the side.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

We don't need any more regulation from government. You don't need overarching moralism to tell you how to live because human beings actually have a pretty well-developed moral center. The more government intrudes on the basic decisions you make, the further away you get from your natural morality.

Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation and taxes, and to return power to individuals to arrange their lives as they see fit. But they have never entirely managed to eradicate the New Deal government.

We can expect commercial enterprises to attempt whatever lawful ruses they can pull off. It is up to society, represented by government, to stop them, through the kind of regulation that has so far been lacking.

New Hampshire has led the nation in streamlining government regulation to allow job-creators the opportunity to grow and expand.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It's one thing to change regulations on the city level, another on the state, and still another on the federal. The higher the levels are, the more difficult change gets.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.