#regulate

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #few #government #keeps #moves

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#ad #advertising #against #any #aspires

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#because #effective #often #regulated #speech

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare. ↗

— Friedrich List

#around #common #everywhere #exertions #individuals

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. ↗

— William James

#control #direct #feeling #follow #go

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#imagination #instead #may #reality #regulate

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing. ↗

— Paul R. Ehrlich

#doing #government #highly #industries #most

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#field #how #i #music #regulate

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. ↗

— William H. Seward

#constitution #devotes #domain #higher #law

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion