Robert Hass Quotes

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our back-pockets.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

I think it's important that we eliminate regulations that are not serving a useful purpose.

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

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

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.