Excessive Regulation Quotes

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

What could be tolerated when government was small cannot be endured when government is big.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Republicans are right to express concern about excessive regulation, and they can do a lot to reduce it, above all by scrutinizing rules on the books and by putting all new proposals through a cost-benefit filter. There's room for plenty of creativity here.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

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.

Too many rules will stifle innovation.

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Congress is good at two things: Doing nothing and over-reacting.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.

When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

The whole [sexual offender] register is a horrible mistake. I think it's utterly ridiculous to take teenage sex and make it a felony.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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.