Brett Kavanaugh Quotes

As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.

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

I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

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.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

When an industry has a blanket exemption and someone suggests the most modest regulation, they see it changing the universe in which they do business.

It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of the railroads at the same time that the supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Repealing rules therefore requires federal agencies to explain why the factual and scientific bases for the predicted benefits of their rules were wrong or no longer adequate to justify those rules.

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.

I don't interfere with regulators.

There's a gazillion different business license fees. And just keeping up with all the regulations - it just doesn't stop.

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.

Financial regulators should be particularly attentive to the financial consequences of their actions.