Regulation Quotations | Page 4

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I can confirm that Microsoft did make a formal request for the hearing to be public and the request was refused by the hearing officer because the procedural regulation explicitly prohibits this.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

Government regulation on the local level is the problem. I have been working on the local level very intensely for six months now. I have personally identified a slew of local government regulations that are causing the problem.

Government regulation on the local level is the problem.

Government must not burden automotive manufacturing in the UK off the European map. Manufacturers must have the confidence to develop their operations and government must help us meet the competitiveness challenge. That means a light regulatory touch and an integrated approach to regulation in environmental and transport policy.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

Regulations force people to do better.

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

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.

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

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.

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.

We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

[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.

Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right to do it. But it's not going to do anything about the climate. And it's going to cost, there's no doubt about that."

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

You can't expect the insurance industry to do something out of the goodness of its heart. But you might be able to combine incentives ... and regulation in a way that still lets the market work.

The lid has been kept on a little more tightly in Europe. The pace of opening the market to competition has been slower, which has benefited the established carriers. Regulation on airport slots also means the government can control access to the sector and influence the fate of new entrants.

This is a landmark regulation on human studies. We want to send the message clearly that certain kinds of human research can never be acceptable.

That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

You've got to drive it to score. He chose to pass. That didn't cost us. What cost us is at the end of regulation we didn't execute.

The Chinese government will follow the relevant stipulations of the convention to improve its related laws and regulations, strictly control smoking in public spaces and strengthen regulation of tobacco production and business activities.

The commission regulation on procedures in antitrust cases is very explicit. It says oral hearings should not be held in public.

The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand...3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

A national accreditation scheme implies regulation and de facto licensing of reporters, a concept abhorrent to most of us. Let individual journalism programs forge partnerships with industry rather than force-fitting everyone to a single system. Employers know which courses produce the best graduates and many choose to look no further.

All of the players are striving to improve on fairways hit, greens in regulation and lowering their putt totals. If everyone shows improvement in those three areas, we will continue to lower our team totals.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

The last two minutes of regulation and then overtime we played with a sense of urgency.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.

statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

We're undefeated in regulation.

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture — agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

Who has not wished that his host would come out frankly at the beginning of the visit and state, in no uncertain terms, the rulesand preferences of the household in such matters as the breakfast hour? And who has not sounded out his guest to find out what he likes in the regulation of his diet and modus vivendi (mode of living)?

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars...

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

We ask that (other countries) do not interfere in our regulation.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Microsoft's key goal is to be able to have the freedom to innovate like we always have, where we decide what goes into the product, where we can support the Internet in the product, ... We're simply sticking up for that. We're hard at work on the new products while the competitors are trying to use regulation to slow us down.

What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.

This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations.

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.