Regulatory Capture Quotes

#1. There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

#2. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

#3. Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

E.L. Konigsburg

#4. I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

Gerry Lindgren

#5. For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

Jason Calacanis

#6. My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Kiefer Sutherland

#7. Virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

Thomas Paine

#8. I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

Charlie Watts

#9. In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

Ellen McLaughlin

#10. If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#11. You're my brother."
"Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.

Cassandra Clare

#12. The Earth is blue ... how wonderful. It is amazing

Yuri Gagarin