Compliance Requirements Quotes

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

What always happens if you have automatic sanctions legislation is it puts enormous pressure on whoever is in the executive branch to fudge an evaluation of the facts.

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

It’s a big country; it needs a lot of regulation.

In 1984, one out of four campaign dollars was budgeted for accountants and lawyers to circumvent—or comply with—the law.

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

When you have millions of small companies using your site and billions of dollars in transactions every day, the government cares….They care that I can unstabalize the country.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

When you put new security measures in place there is a greater time lag than before.

I ... can sniff out a bureaucracy when I see it coming [in new legislation.]

I think new regulations create a reset for all teams.

There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin.

When you're with WWE, you are operating within very fine boundaries that you cannot step outside of.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

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.

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.