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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. -- John Stossel
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? -- Gale Norton
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. -- Orrin Hatch
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
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
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry. -- Jim Barksdale
I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry. -- Jim Barksdale
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. -- Anthony Kennedy
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
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
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
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
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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
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
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. -- Grover Norquist
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone. -- Gautam Adani
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. -- Mark McKinnon
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. -- John Maynard Keynes
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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
If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder. -- Richard Ebeling
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
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view. -- Jeff Sessions
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Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs. -- Robert Hass
In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance. -- Ian Bremmer
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. -- Glenn Beck
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy. -- Richard Ebeling
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human. -- Steven Magee

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