John Hutton Quotes

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.

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.

When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.

If you think that government regulators are going to outwit the market, you've got a Jurassic Park fantasy.

In my view, it is unreasonable for EPA to exclude considerations of costs in determining whether it is 'appropriate' to impose significant new regulations on electric utilities.

I think it's important that we eliminate regulations that are not serving a useful purpose.

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

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

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

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 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.

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.

The railroads saw that they must either accept control by the State of control the State.

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

The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

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.

The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.

There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.