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Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.
The Internet, like most successful American innovations, have not thrived because of heavy-handed government regulation.
I often see sports teams playing to force overtime instead of trying to win in regulation, and it makes me shake my head.
Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.
The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.
I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be.
The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.
The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.
The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s.
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.
We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.
What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.
In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.
I would think that to say 'regulations cost jobs' or 'regulations create jobs' is too simple, and we need to look at the regulation.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.
Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.
I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
We have put in place policies through supervision and regulation that has greatly enhanced the safety and soundness of the banking system.
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.
We have to be careful that we don't have so much regulation that would prevent all of the people who are benefiting from Airbnb to benefit.
I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.
Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.
Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth.
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.
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.