Minimal Regulation Quotes

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

Government needs to stay out of nearly everything.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

I'm one of those guys who believes in next to zero government. They just screw everything up.