Authority Quote by George Soros

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled…

— Robert E. Davis

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.

— Jerome Powell

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

— John Thain

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to…

— Ben Bernanke

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to…

— Anthony Trollope

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that…

— Jerome Powell

The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative…

— James Madison

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be…

— Ha-Joon Chang

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be…

— Ha-Joon Chang