Richard Cordray Quotes

When the consumer is strong, the American economy will be strong, so consumer protection actually serves economic growth and economic progress.

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

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

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

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

I want to protect consumers from their government.

Our job, which Congress gave us, was to protect consumers. That work needs to be done in our communities for people regardless of what happens with elections, regardless of what happens with particular people and particular offices, and that is something that I have tried to stress at my agency.

We are fighting for an open and fair economy. We are fighting for the consumer. Someone needs to.

We marked a milestone for consumer empowerment when we began to publish consumer complaint narratives which allow people to share in their own words their experiences in the consumer financial marketplace.

We owe it to consumers to treat their dollars with respect and to double- and triple-check our assumptions about complex marketplaces rather than getting locked into a regulatory tunnel vision that will ultimately leave consumers with fewer, more expensive choices.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.

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

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

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

If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.