65 Quotes About Regulation

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

it can use laws, regulations, and outright coercion to come out on top: a determined government is always going to win the battle for currency supremacy, at least in the long run. Other transaction media may thrive, but the government currency will be at the center.

A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of private property owners.

Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.

Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.