Regulation Quotes · Page 19

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think…

— Ed Rendell

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in…

— Adam Smith

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

— Gary Ackerman

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

— Tom Perez

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors…

— Dave Barry

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

— Milton Friedman

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State…

— Thomas Jefferson

[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.

— R. J. Reynolds

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried…

— Don Shula

I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death.

— Donald Trump

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

— Jamie Dimon

I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to…

— Madeleine Albright

There is no such thing as free regulation.

— John Hutton

We know, digital asset securities can share many characteristics with traditional securities, but they're not inherently the same, and regulation needs to…

— Katie Britt

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without…

— Tony Benn

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I…

— David Frum

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

— Alec Baldwin

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to…

— John Milton

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

We have put in place policies through supervision and regulation that has greatly enhanced the safety and soundness of the banking system.

— Janet Yellen

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

— Lloyd Mangrum

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to…

— Russell Kirk

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but…

— Paul Krugman