James Miller Quotes

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

I don't interfere with regulators.

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

I am conscious each time I ask a question that there is a deep resentment in the heart of the railroad official at being compelled to answer; but that he is compelled to, he recognizes.

The word to regulate implies in its nature full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily, the action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing.

Regulators are very heavily lobbied and they tend to give in…. We must have strong, vigilant, regulators.

History is on the side of the regulators.

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

Title IX is the law of the land. It’s yours to obey and mine to enforce.

No business is above government, and government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above government.

Regulation has crept up on us steadily…. The most alarming feature of this concentration of power in the Federal government is the creation of omnipotent commissions to exercise it. The new fields of Federal control are administered by small Boards or executive commissions, usually appointed by the President and responsible to no one but the President. They are part of the Executive Department. But their function is not executive only. They have two additional functions: one is legislative, the other is judicial. These commissions write the rules which make the laws effective. Then they administer the rules; and when the rules are violated, they it in judgment on the violations.

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

I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

When you are dealing with the United States Government and the Department of Justice you have to always be looking over your shoulder.

The Diet shall have the right, moreover, to suppress on its own authority, without being petitioned, such writings, in whatever German state they may appear, as, in the opinion of a commission appointed by it, are inimical to the honor of the union, the safety of individual states, or the maintenance of peace and quiet in Germany. There shall be no appeal from such decisions

A power to regulate trade, is a power to make all needful rules and regulations concerning trade. Why may it not, then, include that of erecting a trading company, as well as, in other cases, to erect a government ?

With Government funding comes regulation.

Many advantages … may be gained through the establishment of trade commissions, national and state. At first, we should be conservative in giving additional powers to these commissions. The powers given should be based upon the same principles that have been applied in the pure-food laws, and in the control of the public utilities. The American people always move slowly in these matters, and step by step. I should not expect that these trade commissions, if created, would at once be granted all the powers which they would finally exercise. In this matter I should expect the same slow development to take place that has occurred regarding the commissions which control the public utilities.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.