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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are. -- William Scranton
When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans. -- Randy Neugebauer
Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology. -- Clayton Christensen
Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems. -- Joe Barton
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. -- Valerie Jarrett
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs. -- Ted Cruz
Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in. -- Michele Bachmann
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. -- John Kasich
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. -- Cass Sunstein
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. -- Henry Paulson
Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment. -- Benigno Aquino III
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. -- Peter Diamandis
The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant. -- Christina Romer
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. -- Gary Hamel
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. -- Janet Napolitano
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction. -- Abdallah II
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells. -- Thomas Frank
So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing. -- Alphonso Jackson
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
And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. -- Rick Perry
Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office. -- Eric Schneiderman
Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security. -- John Hoeven
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. -- Joel Salatin
Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places. -- Vint Cerf
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight. -- Chip Conley
Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions. -- Clayton Christensen
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
We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs. -- Marco Rubio
For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming. -- Michael K. Simpson
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules. -- Bernard Madoff
We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all. -- Barack Obama
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape. -- Travis Kalanick
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions. -- Sherrod Brown
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work. -- Mark McKinnon
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work." -- Mark McKinnon
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[Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy. -- Mary Matalin
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. -- Emile Durkheim
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle. -- Richard Grasso
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. -- Nick Johnson
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear. -- Paul Singer
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses. -- Ben Bernanke
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. -- Samuel Wilson
Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them. -- Hector Ruiz
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. -- Tim Walberg
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly. -- Bob McDonnell
Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow. -- Marsha Blackburn
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers. -- Newt Gingrich
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans. -- Gavin Newsom
China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated. -- Jeremy Gordon
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans -- Gavin Newsom
In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. -- Gordon Brown
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use. -- Marsha Blackburn
I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges. -- Laurence D. Fink
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures. -- Bob Barr
I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines. -- Jill Stein
When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene. -- John Paul Stevens
This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly advocated for a considerable period. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution. -- Paul Ryan
Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail. -- Justin Welby
We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more. -- Calvin Coolidge
My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges. -- Merton Miller
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time. -- Bernard Madoff
For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures -- John Warren Kindt
The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer. -- Lakshmi Mittal
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species. -- Cynthia Kenyon
We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes. -- Deborah Hersman
I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. -- Elon Musk
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa . -- Paul A. Baran
I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed. -- Russell E. Train
I don't think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior. -- Ray Dalio
The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring. -- Sher Valenzuela
A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers. -- Henry Paulson
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance. -- John Larson
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
There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. -- Travis Kalanick
[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere. -- Julian Sanchez
President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels. -- Lael Brainard
In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, 'independent' regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections. -- Ilana Mercer

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