Steve Bannon Quotes

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

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

Reining in the regulatory state would have a massive impact on economic freedom going forward.

When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation.

We've issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody's ever seen regulations like we have.

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.

Generally I'm against regulation.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.

[Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy.

I'm going to cut regulations.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

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.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

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.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

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.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

The job of government must be to provide the rules and the climate that will let the system work.

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 doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

Markets are smart and governments are dumb.