Regulation Quotes - Page 17

• I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Awards, Japan

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.

  Preston Manning

  Loss, Top Down, Government

  "Preston Manning on the state of the conservative movement" by Aaron Wherry, www.macleans.ca. March 9, 2013.

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• The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Military, Men, Community

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• People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes, it doesn't have regulations; capitalism is just voluntary transactions. What they have in the US today I call crapitalism. But it's sad that so many people are confused and they think, 'Oh that's free markets in the US', when it's one of the least free market countries on earth.

  Jeff Berwick

  Country, Confused, Thinking

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• [Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Way, Planning, Hungry

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• The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Feelings, Agents, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

  Jay Leno

  Kids, People, Safety

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• That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In principle the government is supposed to make regulations that help the economy over time. But once it's taken over by the financial sector, the government lives in the short run too.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Taken, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The man-made laws have been made by men who have not perceived the final goal towards which they are making. And that is why it is so important to insist upon the final thing first, and then all the regulations, all the disciplines, will follow.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Law, Discipline

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• 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

  Prayer, Humorous, Government

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• I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "Holder Was Aware of Clinton-Era Renditions". Fox News with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2009.

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• What hasn't been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal government. And what it says is, for every regulation presented for passage that Cabinet secretary has to identify two that person would eliminate. And that's a big deal.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Order, Two

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Strong, Technology, Government

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

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• 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

  Government, Climate, Problem

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

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• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations

  Gary Miller

  Oil, Differences, Competition

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

  Gale Norton

  Government, Environmental, Way

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.

  Boris Johnson

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Looks, Tiny

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.

  Robert H. Frank

  Believe, Thoughtful, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's income, they want to raise taxes. They want to impugn, punish, institute more regulations, just make it tougher and tougher and do what they can to take money from them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Income

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who go into it essentially ought to know what risks they're taking and I don't see any useful regulation.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Whether it's being repealing or replacing Obamacare, rolling back excessive regulations, making the kind of investments that'll support infrastructure, or reducing taxes and reforming business taxes across the country. That's just a sampling of the things that we're working on right now.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Obamacare, Support

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the administration, to begin to roll back the unconstitutional executive orders and an avalanche of regulations that have been stifling growth and jobs in Indiana and across the economy.

  Mike Pence

  Monday, Jobs, Order

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Cutting, Class

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