Regulatory Body Quotes

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.

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.

What I feel is that we need an independent consumer watchdog. You have regular people who have problems with big financial companies. How do they get relief? And you need somebody who's gonna stand on their side and level the playing field for them.

Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

I have no issue with the CBFC.

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 - doesn't disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.

The FCC is a quasi-judicial body. It is supposed to undertake this period of public comment with a degree of seriousness and respect.

… a federal industrial commission comparable to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the protection of the people from concerns offering worthless investments under highly colored and specious appearances

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

The glare of publicity on my private life threatens to undermine the effectiveness of the division of enforcement and of the Commission.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

I don't think boxing needs to be regulated. I think boxing needs to have a complaint board. And I think the complaint board should be able to look into boxing situations - as far as if you're getting what you should be getting, whether you're being managed, not being managed, etc.