Top 301 Regulatory Quotes & Sayings

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

Particularly when it comes to the regulatory environment, being a jerk doesn't actually get you very far.

Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

[Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy.

I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so difficult that it's almost impossible for foreigners to have an advantage over locals who have better political connections and who can manipulate the regulatory system much more effectively.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

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.

An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

Luxembourg is the first adopter in Europe of a legal and regulatory framework recognizing that space resources are capable of being owned by private companies.

For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

We've got to change our regulatory system.

I think one could argue that there's more political input into the regulatory side, and on the regulatory side there seem to be fewer people with financial and banking experience - there are more lawyers, academics, economists, maybe politicians now.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.

Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined.

The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

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.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

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.

I look forward to taking on issues regarding the Constitution, intellectual property, terrorism, and other legal and regulatory reforms.

There are not sufficient regulatory frameworks to handle the amount of power that companies like Facebook have, particularly in the United States.

The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

Light touch regulation means that we create broad regulatory frameworks that can protect consumers to ensure an overall competitive marketplace.

We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what I'm talking about, is that we have a regulatory system that is biased to protect profit and not to protect people. We need a much more precautionary and proactive regulatory system that is not influenced by the revolving door.

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.

Reining in the regulatory state would have a massive impact on economic freedom going forward.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

The thing that I realized in my journey as a whistleblower... is that the reaction that I got from a lot of law enforcement and regulatory agencies was confusion and bafflement.

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.

Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

Regulatory creep usually starts with calls for 'regulatory parity.' The mantra will be, if you are going to impose certain regulations, then it is only fair to stick it to all market participants equally.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

Loss-absorbing capacity among banks is substantially higher as a result of both regulatory requirements and stress testing exercises.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment should look like.