For example, Rhode Island, where 63 percent of residents favor abortion rights, has rebuffed efforts at regulation in the past.

From time to time thereafter, certain local government bodies made stabs at suppression or regulation.

Under the banner of the First Amendment, newspapers have managed in court to beat back most attempts at regulation.

And though executives chafe at financial regulation, the protection it provides makes investors far more likely to hand them money to play with.

"Yet we believe there's a morality above any law, which must stand watchdog on all attempts at unchanging regulation."

Defenders of offshore banking have criticised these attempts at regulation.

I think we need to look again at regulation.

Unfortunately, it is often a problem in politics that attempts at regulation are met with reluctance until an incident occurs.

In your own country in particular, there is little support for attempts at regulation before there has been an incident.

"Unfortunately, it takes a tragedy to start looking at regulation sometimes."