Government Regulation Quotes:

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

- Robert Nozick

topic: Government, Regulation, Adults, Government Regulation

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

- Jim DeMint

topic: Government, Want, Regulation, Government Regulation

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

- Gale Norton

topic: Government, Regulation, Way, Protect The Environment, Government Regulation

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

- Dennis Kucinich

topic: Country, Wall, Government, Restitution, Not Honest

Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

topic: Government, Years, Trying, Government Regulation

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Hands, Government, Regulation, Vigilant, Antitrust

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Felicity, Limiting Government

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Bread, Mouths, Labor, Inaugural, Inaugural Address

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.

- James Madison

topic: Law, Citizens, Body, Government Regulation

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

- Nigel Farage

source: "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

topic: Government, Greed, Banking, Bad Government, Government Policy

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

- Mark McKinnon

topic: Government, Taxation, Regulation, Government Regulation

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

- James L. Barksdale

topic: Believe, Government, Regulation, Government Regulation

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

- David McIntosh

topic: Prayer, Humorous, Government, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

- Robert Bork

topic: Powerful, Government, Liberty, Government Regulation

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Tired, Thinking, Government, Public Officials, Government Programs

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

- John Stossel

topic: Government, People, Regulation, Government Regulation

I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: Government, Air, Effort, Cargo, Deregulation

Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

- Sharron Angle

topic: Jobs, Government, Creating, Creating Jobs, Government Regulation

I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Running, Honesty, War, Economic Issues, Government Regulation

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market.

- Joseph J. Romm

source: Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Strong, Technology, Government, Strong Government, Clean Energy

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

- John Stossel

topic: Government, Arbitrary, Want, Government Regulation

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

- John Stossel

topic: Government, Law, Regulation, False Sense Of Security, Government Regulation

The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

- Mark Levin

source: Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Government, Essence, Paying Taxes, Oil Industry

I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.

- Robin Leach

source: Source: www.cyinterview.com

topic: Taken, Hard Work, Heart, Government Regulation

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Prayer, Government, Differences, Gettysburg Address, Government Regulation

The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

- William J. Brennan

topic: Religious, Exercise, Government, Clauses, Government Regulation

It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.

- Robert Hass

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: War, Government, Play, Free Movement, Government Regulation

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

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Zero, Government, Regulation, Government Regulation, Slave Labor

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Government, People, Government Involvement, Government Regulation

Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

- Robert Reich

source: "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

topic: Wall, Believe, Government, Predatory, Bailouts

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

- Trent Lott

source: "Two Former Senators Share Thoughts On The 2016 Campaign". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. January 25, 2016.

topic: Book, Thinking, Government, Government Regulation

Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

- Richard Ebeling

topic: Attitude, Government, Engineering, Social Engineering, Personal Freedom

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...

- Winifred Holtby

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Government, Cripples, Government Regulation

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

- Anthony Kennedy

topic: Government, Challenges, Regulation, Government Regulation

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

- James Morcan

topic: Running, Mean, Reality, Financial Independence, Coups

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

- David Frum

topic: Government, Years, Issues, Economic Issues, Environmental Issues

Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

- Joseph J. Romm

source: Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Government, Climate, Regulation, Government Regulation

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

- David Aaron Kessler

topic: Horse, Government, Safety, Food Safety, Government Regulation

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Government, Accountability, Regulation, Government Regulation

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.

- Rachel Martin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Men, Two, Oklahoma, Epa, Government Regulation