Regulatory Capture Quotes

“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.”
― Markham Shaw Pyle

“There are no doubts that the FAA and NTSB are in bed with Boeing.”
― Steven Magee

“There are no doubts that the FAA and NTSB are 'In A Relationship’ with Boeing.”
― Steven Magee

“The dangerous relationship that the FAA and NTSB has with Boeing needs to end.”
― Steven Magee

“The stock market control of the FAA, NTSB and Boeing needs to end for the safety of air travelers.”
― Steven Magee

“The FAA is your typical ‘Captured’ government agency.”
― Steven Magee

“Every growing civilization is a scene of multiplying inequalities; the natural differences of human endowment unite with differences of opportunity to produce artificial differences of wealth and power; and where no laws or despots suppress these artificial inequalities they reach at last a bursting point where the poor have nothing to lose by violence, and the chaos of revolution levels men again into a community of destitution. ... Then the race for wealth, goods and power begins again, and the pyramid of ability takes form once more; under whatever laws may be enacted the abler man manages somehow to get the richer soil, the better place, the lion’s share; soon he is strong enough to dominate the state and rewrite or interpret the laws; and in time the inequality is as great as before.”
― Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage