of the people who live in this country do not live in places like Butte, 

 Montana or Helena or Bismark, North Dakota or Salt Lake City. They live 

 in large metropolitan areas and they have very little real relationship with 

 the things about which you are concerned. They also enjoy an interesting 

 relationship with the rest of the world in the sense that there is one thing 

 called "one man-one vote." 



And it's where the people are that the clout lies. A thing that you 

 should never forget. For that reason it is possible for the megalopolis 

 that stretches from south of Washington, D.C. clear through Boston, for 

 example, to have inordinate impact on what goes on in Montana or Idaho or 

 even California, because most of the people in this country live there and 

 they carry a great deal of weight in their decisions and their influence. 

 It doesn't mean they're right necessarily, but they are powerful. They 

 examine the world west of the Potomac and see that it is made up of things 

 in which they have an interest. They may not understand it well, but 

 they have an interest in it. They see that there are public lands, great 

 wide-open frontier-like public lands that they see belong to everybody. 

 And in recent years, as you know as well as I do, they've begun to say 

 things about how they feel those pulic lands ought to be used. This, 

 coupled with the impacts of all the other things those millions of people 

 want, begins to bear upon your life, the complexity of your life. 



We are regulated to within an inch of our lives. And most of you 

 have no idea how regulated we are. There are regulations that relate to 

 health and safety. There are regulations that relate to the nature and 

 content and interest-bearing potential of your bank account. There are 

 regulations that govern the way your automobile is built, and the way it 

 should be maintained. 



There are regulations for everything. Only a few are environmental, 

 but there are regulations everywhere. And they stem from the fact that a 

 lot of people seem to want the government to determine what their lives 

 shall be like--very interesting thing about regulation and the influence of 

 regulation. Did you ever contemplate turning one off? Did you ever 

 contemplate doing away with the regulation? A lot of people have. 

 There's a man in Washington who has made an extraordinary career for 

 himself, a real reputation at least, as being a man who has deregulated 

 something. He deregulated airline transport and he's notorious--noted at 

 least--for his efforts to influence and control the economy. He's an 

 economic advisor of the President, and he, with diligent effort, managed to 

 deregulate two or things related to the airline industry. Others have 

 tried to deregulate things and found it nearly impossible to do so because 

 ours is a nation of people who are made up of special interest groups, who 

 are delighted to have the regulation that affects somebody else taken off 

 the books, but they do not want the regulation that protects their 

 interests toyed with. 



It's somewhat like the idea that a sanitary landfill is well accepted as 

 an inevitable consequence of the way we live and our technology and 

 sanitary landfills are something we have to live with, but don't ask me to 

 live with it near where I live. Put your sanitary landfill someplace else. 

 Take the regulation off something else but do not deregulate that with 



