Mike Pompeo Quotes

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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

Every regulation requires two more regulations to deal with the unintended consequences.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

Heavy-handed regulations hurt the very consumers they're supposed to help.

Federal rules and regulations too often become seemingly insurmountable obstacles to simple changes that can have a positive impact.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.