Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Carlos Ghosn

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

David Cameron

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

There is no regulation or requirement that they say something. Some of them do, but he's not wrong if he doesn't use it.

James Madison

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.

John Dewey

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Eric Topol

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Each jurisdiction varies widely on how many trees you have to keep in your project. Some have strict regulation about tree replacement.

George Stigler

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

George Soros

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

Dick Pound

We can now (impose punishment) under the world anti-doping code. I'm not sure what the UCI regulation at the time may have been.

There's no regulation on where they put the dealerships.

Gary Kovacs

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

Lawrence Lessig

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

Jurgen Habermas

All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

Julian Assange

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

Nancy Pelosi

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Luc de Clapiers

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Robert Toombs

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

William Warburton

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Scott Rigell

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

Lee Myung-bak

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

Sam Wyly

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