Regulator Quotes

#1. The question is: Which means best advances the regulator's goal, subject to the constraints (whether normative or material) that the regulator must recognize? My

Lawrence Lessig

#2. The corporate joke among humans was that the official symbol of the barabo financial regulator was a shrug.

Joel Shepherd

#3. Immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

Josh Sugarmann

#4. President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

Marvin Ammori

#5. The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Frederick Tilney

#6. Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. There is a fundamental problem with regulators. If a regulator agrees to change a rule and something bad happens, they could easily lose their career. Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don't even get a reward.

Ashlee Vance

#8. He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

Don DeLillo

#9. We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

#11. I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.

Mary Jo White

#12. The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.

Gerald Weinberg

#13. Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Jules Verne

#14. But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#15. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Marco Rubio

#16. You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a
medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you
allow it to be.

Charleszetta Waddles

#17. When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

John Redwood

#18. Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.

Thomas Frank

#19. If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

Iveta Radicova

#20. When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.

Augustus William Hare

#21. There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.

Donald Rooum

#22. There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

Thomas Reed

#23. My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy.

Henry Paulson

#24. They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Harold H. Greene

#25. The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Dick Cheney

#26. I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in this case it does not.

Cuthbert Soup

#27. [A]lthough there are many arguments that strongly support the establishment of a national securities regulator in Canada, it is not entirely clear that the regulatory response to the ABCP meltdown is among them.

Paul Halpern

#28. Knowledge was the great thing
not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

Graham Greene

#29. Sleep is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

Jennifer Waldburger

#30. This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the water level.

Leah Rae Miller

#31. Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#32. The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

#33. I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Mark Boal

#34. Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

#35. It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#36. Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?

Ben Brantley