Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Speier

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

We are struggling with cost issues and trying to understand what products will be and what consumers will want and be willing to pay for in the future,

We are very excited that we have helped over 300,000 people with their loan needs. That means we're definitely doing something right and our goals to help consumers are all in the right place.

We have fewer consumers who have positive views of housing prices of any time since 1982 and fewer consumers who have positive views of interest rates of any time since the last recession.

We have designed Windows XP specifically to meet the needs of today's consumer and to unleash the power and potential of the PC.

We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

We think it can work because the response from consumers has been strong.

We're very excited about the turnout and consumer involvement with M&Ms, ... It's a popular color, it's a royal color. People love it around the world.

Vista will provide content owners with a more secure platform to deliver their premium content. However, it will take more than an operating system to turn the PC into a media hub. Creating innovative consumer experiences around premium content will help expand the market for content delivery via the PC. Vista is not the key component.

Vista promises to incorporate a simplified, enriched consumer experience, which is the hallmark of the Mac operating systems.

Visitor volumes continue to press forward, while consumer spending is holding its ground. We estimate spending on gaming, lodging, dining and retail items posted healthy gains ranging from high single-digits to low double-digits during the first quarter of 2006.

U.S. consumers have been increasing their spending much faster than their incomes.

Ronald Coase

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

Bill Richardson

What is important to us is not just that OPEC and other nations make a decision to increase production, but that they do it and get oil into the market because this is not just the United States, ... ...What is most important here is consumer and producing countries need to have a stable price, and that helps them both.

We want to offer the consumer the most integrated way of doing business,

We knew going into this that one of the most popular days for streaming video throughout the year is the Super Bowl. We knew with the hype this year, there was going to be more of an emphasis placed by consumers on historic video commercials.

We knew consumers weren't satisfied with traditional payment options online.

Though Mother's Day celebrations and gifts will vary, many consumers see this as an important day to honor the women in their lives. With all the sacrifices mom has made over the years, Mother's Day is an opportunity to give something back.

Though many consumers are more financially comfortable now than they were a year ago, they are still looking for great prices and savings on gifts and everyday merchandise. The retailers that succeed this holiday season will be those that continue to focus on sales and promotions to drive traffic.

With incomes outpacing spending I think American consumers will keep spending like crazy going into the New Year, ... That's going to be taken into consideration by Greenspan, who's trying to slow things down.

With household finances already under considerable stress, one has to wonder if another round of rate hikes will lead to a more severe cutback in consumer spending.

With higher gasoline prices putting a dent in consumer spending and underlying inflation looking to be contained, further interest rate hikes seem unnecessary.

You have a consumer decision to make, but you don't have a frame of reference to work with.

You have to have a 'wow' factor. The consumer is more demanding, more educated, and hospitals have to adapt. We want to stay in the forefront of creating change.

We had a strong start to the year, partly weather and consumer related, and now we're getting indications for the second quarter and they're looking moderate.

We already thought it was very, very strong and consumer spending has been a big factor, but the underlying tone seems to indicate that overall growth is tapering off.

We all talk about our dependence on imported oil, but our dependence on manufactured goods is two and a half times larger than oil. We're so dependent on imported goods -- from consumer and capital.

Marsha Blackburn

Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.

UPS is much better suited from a pricing standpoint, but also from a consumer standpoint.

There is some nervousness on the part of consumer and it is not going to be a red-hot market in 2006.

The recent Sony experience shows us that we need to be thinking about how we ensure that consumers are not surprised by what their software programs do.

John Butler

The recovery is still being held back by the weaker consumer outlook.

Brad Smith

The routine that was described in court today in fact does not remove all of the Internet Explorer files; it only removes about 3 percent of them. It's designed to be very easy for consumers to use, but does not do what we were ordered to last week, which was to remove all those files in their entirety.