Quotes about Regulation

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!

Some problems cannot be cured through legislation. But they must be attended to nonetheless. And here's the problem: The less the culture attends to these things, the more the government will attend to them and the less freedom there will be.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.