Quotes About Government

Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

President Trump cut regulations, allowing businesses large and small to expand and hire. The Democrats created those regulations.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.

I trust the regulatory mechanism; it is a fair and independent mechanism, and the politicians and government do not interfere with the regulators.

Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we want more of the policies that have stifled growth? Or do we want something else, something different, something that focuses on the need to reevaluate the size, the scope, the cost, the reach of the federal government?

For the life of me, I cannot understand Clinton and her proposed across-the-board tax hikes on individuals, businesses and investors. I cannot fathom her plans for increased regulatory burdens, which include more government-run healthcare and a halt to the fossil-fuel energy boom.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

More government control of doctors and their reimbursement schemes will only create more problems.

The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

Optimism leads to investment, and anything that our government can do to reinforce optimism in our economy is good.

I'm a Democrat for the reinforcement of the Patriot Act. It's not strong enough.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.