Quotes about Regulation

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

You can't just let nature run wild.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size—and that, in a way, became my theme.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.