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Regulations force people to do better. -- Jay Leno
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher. -- Carlos Ghosn
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. -- Wilbur Ross
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. -- Lord Byron
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
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee. -- Robert Harris
The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth. -- Leo Rosten
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations. -- Margaret Chan
Economy is so riddled with corporate welfare and anti-competitive regulations, anti-innovation regulations. Regulations that are destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged, which is creating this two-tiered system we're headed for which has which is destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the wealthy. -- Charles Koch
So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country. -- Donald Trump
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders. -- John Hunt Morgan
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. -- Winston Churchill
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. -- Fred Thompson
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. -- Arthur Erickson
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. -- Nigel Farage
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive. -- Alan Sugar
The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan. -- Neal Boortz
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
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world. -- Ike Skelton
I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you. -- Charles Grodin
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint. -- Michael Specter
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. -- Madonna Ciccone
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies. -- Ralph Hall
As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. -- Richard Trumka
A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs. -- Jeb Bush
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. -- Marc Faber
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
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
There's not really a ban on the KIA bracelet specifically. There are regulations for wearing the uniform and specifically jewelry, and Marines are not allowed to wear bracelets. This falls under that spectrum. Now, the KIA bracelet will be lumped into the same category as the POW/MIA bracelets, which are approved for wear. -- James F. Amos
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most. -- Charles Koch
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision. -- Jack Welch
The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. -- Rick Santorum
I'm going to cut regulations. -- Donald Trump
Words are just rules and regulations to me. -- Patti Smith
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate -- John Ashcroft
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. -- George Ade
Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee. -- Ludwig von Mises
The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles. -- Scott Rigell
The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. -- Jamie Dimon
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. -- Milton Friedman
When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. -- Timothy Noah
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. -- Samuel Johnson
What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses. -- Hillary Clinton
The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans. -- Nancy Pelosi
Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. -- David Platt
There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad. -- Hillary Clinton
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation. -- Donald Alexander
Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. -- Dan Quayle
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. -- Herve Falciani
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. -- Joel Salatin
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out. -- Antonin Scalia
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. -- Rick Renzi
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. -- Joe Craft
Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world. -- Graham Nash
Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that. -- Jamie Dimon
We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible? -- Kevin Drum
[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules. -- Gary Kovacs
Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up... -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns. -- Jamie Dimon
Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations. -- Dee Hock
[Hillary Clinton's] regulations are a disaster, and you're going to increase regulations all over the place. -- Donald Trump
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies. -- Lee Myung-bak
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. -- Gary Ackerman
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. -- Larry Elder
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. -- Stephen A. Douglas
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. -- Jacky Ickx
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse. -- Chris Asplen
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU. -- John Hutton
At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations. -- Leslie Hope
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
China is eating our lunch because they don't partake in all of the rules and regulations that we Americans do. -- Donald Trump
Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured. -- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. -- Samuel Wilson
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock
Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams. -- Jacques Villeneuve
Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars... -- Vince Staples
In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission. -- Peter Hessler
The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become.The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers. -- Lao Tzu
The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers. -- Lao Tzu
When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold. -- Billy Graham
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
[ Tax cut ] will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, [Hillary Clinton] are going to regulate these businesses out of existence. -- Donald Trump
I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested. -- Lloyd Mangrum
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. -- Robert Toombs
When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. -- Mitch Kapor
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. -- Mitt Romney
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. -- Hal Rogers
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing. -- Michael Otto
Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent. -- Elizabeth Warren
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough. -- Edward de Bono
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. -- John Milton
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class. -- Kamala Harris
Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets. -- Paul Craig Roberts
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. -- Newt Gingrich
Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules. -- Kit Bond
Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness. -- Dave Barry
There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations. -- Gloria Allred
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit. -- Noreena Hertz
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. -- Juan Williams
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. -- Joe Barton
I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be. -- Jamie Dimon
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
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty. -- Winnie Byanyima
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
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. -- Rupert Murdoch
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of. -- Ami Ayalon
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
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight. -- Hans Vestberg
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington. -- Steve Daines
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families. -- Alan Wilson

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