Marvin Ammori Quotes

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

No legal fee can be too high for a large corporation with billions at stake on a phrase in a law or the timing of a regulation.

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation.

On reflection, I am always pleasantly surprised when ordinary members of the public stop me in the street to say, 'Thank you,' I guess for making travel and other goods and services affordable to them.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.

Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

The civil process has become too expensive, time-consuming, and contentious, inhibiting effective access to the courts.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

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

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

I don’t believe rolling back some regulations on Wall Street will in any way help the small business.

…diligently investigate all complaints which may come to you from any source…and upon your own initiative of violations of the Elkins Act which prohibited “rebates and other discriminatory practices” on the part of corporations.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

That’s typically how the SEC does it. They come in after the crime has been committed they toe-tag the victims, count the bodies, and try to figure out who the crooks were after the fact—which does none of us any good.