Regulation Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Powerful, Government, Liberty

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• If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

  Serj Tankian

  Zero, Competition, Giants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're undefeated in regulation.

  Les Miles

  Memorable, Lsu, Undefeated

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• Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so...

  Alan Greenspan

  Ignorance, Reality, Expectations

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• I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible.

  Christopher

  Goal, Impossible, Feels

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• We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Hands, Political

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• Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

  Graham Nash

  Hippie, Doors, Rules And Regulations

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• I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

  Jamie Dimon

  Believer

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Thinking, Use, Hours

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• 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

  Taken, Hard Work, Heart

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

  William Paterson

  Law, People, Voting

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• The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Jobs, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

  George Ade

  Peace, Mind, Rules And Regulations

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Jesus, Law

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.264, Hartland Publications

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• 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

  Wall, Believe, Government

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

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• A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Air, Rivers

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• The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

  William Beveridge

  Money, Freedom, Government

  "Voluntary Action" by William Beveridge, (Ch. 12), 1948.

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• We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Yield, Long Ago, Competition

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• There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

  James Cromwell

  People, Different, Reason

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.

  Peter Drucker

  Children, Men, Self

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.10, Routledge

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• 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

  Government, Greed, Banking

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

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• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Strong, Power, Rights

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• It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Purpose, Machines, Earth

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• The government isn't going to say, "We're going to regulate banks, but we'll leave these other companies alone." I think the regulators want to make sure that they have some form of regulation on anything systemic. We like our hand. But, you know, honestly, who owns the future?

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Government, Hands

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

  Jamie Dimon

  Government, Law, Rules And Regulations

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