Government Regulation Quotes

“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”
― Steven Magee

“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.”
― Steven Magee

“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.”
― Steven Magee

“Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.”
― Steven Magee

“Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.”
― A.E. Samaan

“If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.”
― Steven Magee

“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”
― Steven Magee

“Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.”
― Thomas Dilorenzo, The Problem with Socialism

“It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.”
― Steven Magee

“Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.”
― Steven Magee

“If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]”
― Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.”
― Steven Magee

“​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.”
― A.E. Samaan

“It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of relevant government departments.”
― Steven Magee

“Harold adds an important idea to that of Evans-Pritchard. "The state always seems to come down on the little guy," he notes. "Take this bayou. If your motorboat leaks a little gas into the water, the warden'll write you up. But if companies leak thousands of gallons of it and kill all the life here? The state lets them go. If you shoot an endangered brown pelican, they'll put you in jail. But if a company kills the brown pelican by poisoning the fish he eats? They let it go. I think they overregulate the bottom because it's harder to regulate the top.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

“Liquor, guns, motorcycle helmets (legislation had gone back and forth on that)—mainly white masculine pursuits—are fairly unregulated. But for women and black men, regulation is greater. Within given parameters, federal law gives women the right to decide whether or not to abort a fetus. But the state of Louisiana has imposed restrictions on clinics offering the procedure, which, if upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court, would prevent all but one clinic, in New Orleans, from offering women access to it. Any adult in the state can also be jailed for transporting a teenager out of state for the purposes of an abortion if the teen has not informed her parents. Young black males are regulated too. Jefferson Davis Parish passed a bill banning the wearing of pants in public that revealed "skin beneath their waists or their underwear" and newspaper accounts featured images, taken from the back, of two black teenage boys exposing large portions of their undershorts. The parish imposed a $50 fine for a first offense and $100 for a second.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

“I heard a great deal about freedom in the sense of freedom to—to talk on your cellphone as you drove a car, to pick up a drive-in daiquiri with a straw on the side, to walk about with a loaded gun. But there was almost no talk about freedom from such things as gun violence, car accidents, or toxic pollution. General Honoré was no nervous nelly, but he was mindful of the vulnerable communities around the "self-regulated" plants. "Part of the psychological program is that people think they're free when they're not," he said. "A company may be free to pollute, but that means the people aren't free to swim.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

“Templet refers me to a 1992 study by the MIT political scientist Stephen Meyer, who rated the fifty states according to the strictness of their environmental protection. Meyer then matched regulatory strictness to economic growth over a twenty-year period and found that the tougher the regulation, the more jobs were available in the economy.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

“The power of the big fish in general to regroup is hardly restricted to banking. When Standard Oil was broken up in 1911, the immediate effect was to replace a national monopoly with a number of regional monopolies controlled by many of the same Wall Street interests. Ultimately, the regional monopolies regrouped: In 1999 Exxon (formerly Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly Standard Oil Company of New York) reconvened in one of the largest mergers in US history. In 1961 Kyso (formerly Standard Oil of Kentucky) was purchased by Chevron (formerly Standard Oil of California); and in the 1960s and 1970s Sohio (formerly Standard Oil of Ohio) was bought by British Petroleum (BP), which then, in 1998, merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana).

The tale of AT&T is similar. As the result of an antitrust settlement with the government, on January 1, 1984, AT&T spun off its local operations so as to create seven so-called Baby Bells. But the Baby Bells quickly began to merge and regroup. By 2006 four of the Baby Bells were reunited with their parent company AT&T, and two others (Bell Atlantic and NYNEX) merged to form Verizon.

So the hope that you can make a banking breakup stick (even if it were to be achieved) flies in the face of some pretty daunting experience. Also, note carefully a major political fact: The time when traditional reformers had enough power to make tough banking regulation really work was the time when progressive politics still had the powerful institutional backing of strong labor unions.

But as we have seen, that time is long ago and far away.”
― Gar Alperovitz, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

“However, before that I owned a gun store. We were a Title 7 SOT (Special Occupational Taxpayer), which means we worked with legal machine guns, suppressors, and pretty much everything except for explosives. We did law enforcement sales and worked with equipment that’s unavailable from most dealers, which meant lots of government inspections and compliance paperwork. I had to be exceedingly familiar with federal gun laws, and there are a multitude of those. I worked with many companies in the gun industry and still have friends and contacts at various manufacturers. When I hear people tell me the gun industry is unregulated, I have to resist the urge to laugh in their faces.”
― Larry Correia, In Defense of the Second Amendment

“There is a dangerous willful ignorance in governments to the adverse health effects of the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“What constitutes wise policy . . . will depend on whether the immediate objective of policy is the promotion of political ends, the protection of vested interests, or the satisfaction of consumer needs.”
― George W. Stocking, Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy

“There is an intentional disregard for human health and safety in many government agencies that are tasked with protecting it.”
― Steven Magee

“There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!”
― Steven Magee

“If you kill one person is called a crime, and you are called a criminal.
If you kill ten people you are called serial killer.
If you kill fifty people or more, is called terrorist act, and you are called a terrorist.
If you killed thoughts of people, is called war, and you are called a warrior.”
― Beta Metani' Marashi

“This is to certify that in addition to the permit of the 29th November Australian traveler Tim Cope can transport his three horses by riding them. His one dog can be carried by its four legs.”
― Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

“Public intervention into private businesses during crises blurs and changes the traditional boundaries between the private spheres of business and the public sphere of government. These public actions during crisis alter norms and social expectations about government intervention in business.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Behind the facade of elected government are the leaders of industry.”
― Steven Magee