David Axelrod Quotes

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

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

against the form or meaning of any restraint or ordinance, contained or to be contained, in any statute of this realm.

The insurance industry has proven by expenditure ... and its legions of pin-striped lawyers, that it is capable of tying up the will of the people.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited, except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited.

So many laws argues so many sins.

Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

It is very important what not to do.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

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.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.