Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.

It is the business of the President as party leader to do the best he can to see that the declared party platform purposes are translated into legislative and administrative action.

When you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

The question of our time is rapidly becoming can government get things done?

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

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

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

…Impeachment is a political, rather than a legal proceeding.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction

Politicians quickly learn to pacify the liberals by passing laws and regulations which, to pacify the conservatives, would not be enforced.

When you pass legislation, it is not tied to a particular problem. It can have unintended consequences.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

Stop sending out press releases and start passing some bills...

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

The legislative branch acts for the future. Judges act by reflecting on the past. The President has to deal with the realities of today.

All bureaucracies have to be weeded and watched.

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.