Roy Black Quotes

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

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun.

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

How much we all suffer from lack of oversight from the government.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.

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.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

Only the corporation that shirks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be over-sensitive.

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

No business is above government, and government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above government.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

The main product of government is laws.

The more authority a person asks for in a democracy, the less privacy they’re entitled to.

Regulations are a form of legislation and should be decided by a political process, not more or better benefit-cost analyses.

Every business action of the individual is supervised and hedged about with red tape and paternal restrictions.

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.

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

We don’t have to choose between preserving privacy and preventing terrorism. We do have to decide how much oversight and accountability there should be when the government conducts surveillance on its citizens.