Alex Azar Quotes

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

The railroads saw that they must either accept control by the State of control the State.

Rational as distinguished from vindictive regulation by public authority turns out to be an extremely delicate problem which not every government agency, particularly when in full cry against big business, can be trusted to solve.

Deregulation played virtually no role

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Generally I'm against regulation.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

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.

Public policy must lead and not merely react.

The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun.

The first instinct of the modern man is to get a law passed to forbid or prevent what, in his wisdom, he disapproves.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

The last 6 months make it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work.

Repealing rules therefore requires federal agencies to explain why the factual and scientific bases for the predicted benefits of their rules were wrong or no longer adequate to justify those rules.

As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

There's a perception out there that Airbnb doesn't want there to be rules. We think rules would be fantastic. We think rules would help our community, but not necessarily the rules that have simply existed for decades.

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed.