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Regulation needs to catch up with innovation. -- Henry Paulson
Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc. -- will.i.am
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. -- Alexander Cockburn
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. -- Alan Greenspan
I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized. -- Al Gore
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. -- Adam Smith
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk. -- Christine Lagarde
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
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business. -- Meg Whitman
Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers. -- Marco Rubio
The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract. -- Oscar Wilde
Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business. -- John Hutton
Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory. -- Alan Greenspan
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To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. -- George Ade
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. -- John Stossel
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. -- Milton Friedman
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. -- Winston Churchill
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation. -- Donald Alexander
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence. -- Edwin H Friedman
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life -- Yasmin Mogahed
[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
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. -- Dianne Feinstein
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
Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake. -- Joan Blades
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
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. -- Arnold Newman
The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits. -- Peter Singer
It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations. -- Aleister Crowley
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe. -- Margaret Thatcher
Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case. -- Paul Brunton
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
Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases. -- Alan Wilson
I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. -- Rick Santelli
Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth. -- Jeb Bush
As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation. -- Loretta Napoleoni
There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing. -- Henry Paulson
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. -- Mark McKinnon
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Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. -- Lee Kun-hee
There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. -- Wilbur Ross
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed. -- George Soros
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. -- Lawrence Lessig
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense. -- Eric Maskin
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. -- Jack Kemp
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- John Hutton
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions. -- Dick Cheney
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net. -- Richard Attias
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. -- Cornel West
Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again. -- Bob Diamond
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. -- Daniel Hannan
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.
People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?' -- David Cameron
We're undefeated in regulation. -- Les Miles
Generally I'm against regulation. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. -- Grover Norquist
Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation. -- Louis Navellier
We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. -- George Allen
I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation. -- Andrew Cuomo
The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation. -- Bill Maris
I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation. -- George Soros
I've always been a ... believer in good regulation. -- Jamie Dimon
Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions. -- John Godfrey Saxe
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
We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation. -- Vladimir Putin
Good regulation should be conducive to business and to customer protection. -- Jamie Dimon
You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation. -- Kenneth Lay
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone. -- Gautam Adani
[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation. -- R. J. Reynolds
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. -- Edward Dahlberg
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance. -- Willem Buiter
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. -- Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it. -- Cass Sunstein
What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation. -- Kevin Brady
A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law. -- Brock Yates
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. -- George Stigler
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support. -- Sun Tzu
India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand...3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation. -- Narendra Modi
I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death. -- Donald Trump
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. -- Shami Chakrabarti
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. -- Anthony Kennedy
Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds. -- Howard Rheingold
Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation. -- Marsha Blackburn
Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before. -- Lawrence Lessig
Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human. -- George Soros
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research. -- Joel Miller
I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be. -- Julian Assange
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. -- Rick Perry
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate. -- Bob Corker
We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less. -- Adam McKay
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. -- Herbert Spencer
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? -- Gale Norton
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union. -- John Hutton
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. -- Sandy Adams
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation. -- Gina McCarthy
Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation. -- Bobby Miller
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism. -- Rand Paul
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. -- Harry Markopolos
The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. -- Orrin Hatch
I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself. -- Ray Dalio
Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like. -- Sam Wyly
Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906] -- Edmund Morris
I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now. -- Howard Dean
For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth. -- David Malpass
Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible. -- Robert Greenwald
We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth. -- Eric Jensen
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. -- Yasunari Kawabata
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law. -- Learned Hand
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The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. -- Fareed Zakaria

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