#regulation

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#choice #comparison #conditions #different #economic

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#approximately #bush #bush administration #discuss #explosion

If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#job #lives #regulation #saving #worth

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. ↗

— John Sununu

#affair #also #burden #business #businesses

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. ↗

— John Sununu

#behind #benefit #broadband #business #concepts

There is no such thing as free regulation. ↗

— John Hutton

#regulation #such #thing

But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth. ↗

— John Hutton

#competitiveness #contribution #effective #european #european union

In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#food-regulation #humor #business

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a permit issued by a government to an industry so that it may dispense sickness, destruction, and death at an "acceptable" rate. ↗

— William McDonough

#industry #regulations #death

The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world. ↗

— Sebastian Marincolo

#drug #drug-policy #drugs #legalization #marihuana