Tom Angell Quotes

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.

As consumers, we are making choices, and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.

Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.

When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it's created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.