regulation quotes

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, 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.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

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.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.