Ajit Pai Quotes

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau supposedly exists to protect you, but instead it tries to micromanage your everyday life.

I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have someone looking carefully over their shoulder to look after the interest of consumers.

I understand that some people are angry about taxi services. A taxi fare hike should be accompanied by better customer service.

Reasonable regulations are essential to protect consumers from harmful practices and ensure that consumer financial markets operate in a fair, transparent, competitive manner.

With Tory privatisations in the past we've seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

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.

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

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.

We ... deceive ourselves in believing that competition can secure for the public fair treatment in such cases.

[The excessive] evils associated with [unregulated] competition [came about] through the shameful neglect of government to fulfill its primary function of protecting equal rights and enforcing justice.]

From the right to know will flow the right to demand, and get, tougher laws and safer practices.

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

We will continue to hold accountable financial institutions that, in the pursuit of their own financial interests, misuse public funds and cause harm to hard working Americans.

We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.

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.

I want to protect consumers from their government.

The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.

Preemption is not about the Essure women - it affects all consumers. If someone had a medical device installed, there's no recourse for victims, and the company is protected. If there's a problem, the company gets a pass because they have preemption. It dawned on me the consumer didn't know. The women didn't know that this existed.