Chris Grayling Quotes

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

We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.

We have an illness in France which bids fair to play havoc with us; this illness is called bureaumania [Often translated as bureaucracy.]

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

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

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

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

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.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.

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.

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

Red tape surrounded and almost smothered us; we as a nation were about to suffocate.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.