Best Regulation Sayings
358 Regulation quotes by 302 unique authors
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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…
— James Madison
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
— Michael Parenti
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The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the…
— James Madison
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"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,…
— Jonathon Porritt
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I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished…
— Unknown Author
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Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid
— Jay Leno
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Regulations force people to do better.
— Jay Leno
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If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank,…
— Peter Boettke
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People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes,…
— Jeff Berwick
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I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,…
— Richard Henry Lee
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As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is…
— John Paul Stevens
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
— Meg Whitman
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties,…
— Preston Manning
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to…
— Orson Scott Card
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The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by…
— Unknown Author
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... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department…
— Josh Sugarmann
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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd.…
— Unknown Author
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The answer, usually, is no. Wisdom is a quality that defies easy definition but psychologists who study aging have found that some of its components…
— James W. Pennebaker
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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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