Scott Pruitt Quotes

No legal fee can be too high for a large corporation with billions at stake on a phrase in a law or the timing of a regulation.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

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.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

The steps which my predecessor took and the legislation passed on his recommendation have accomplished much, have caused a general halt in the vicious policies which created popular alarm, and have brought about in the business world a much higher regard for existing law.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

Regulatory enforcement mechanisms need to be sure and they need to be swift.

When you are dealing with the United States Government and the Department of Justice you have to always be looking over your shoulder.

Rational as distinguished from vindictive regulation by public authority turns out to be an extremely delicate problem which not every government agency, particularly when in full cry against big business, can be trusted to solve.

If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations.

Regulators are very heavily lobbied and they tend to give in…. We must have strong, vigilant, regulators.

…diligently investigate all complaints which may come to you from any source…and upon your own initiative of violations of the Elkins Act which prohibited “rebates and other discriminatory practices” on the part of corporations.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

The last 6 months make it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

A network neutrality rule could result in mere 'slaps on the wrist' or involve such expensive and difficult litigation procedures that no small company or consumer could ever bring a case.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

I don't interfere with regulators.

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It can be unevenly administered. It can be unfair. But most regulations that we have for mutual funds and for banks are regulations that we earned. We did something wrong and we're paying a price for it.

Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior, and excesses have occurred in the opposite direction, in de-regulating other types of behavior. As a matter of fact, if they continue to regulate the airlines, we might have safer skies, and if they slack off on the radio, we might have better radio. If they just use it as a threat, eventually there's going to be another test case like the one that the 7 dirty words ruling came out of, and basically, its extortion.

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.