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The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
Julie Bishop

Business, Confidence, Economy

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.
John Hodgman

Live, Humble, Proud

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Michael Pollan

Food, Sensitive, Perhaps

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Care, Confidence, Problem

We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Barry Diller

Law, Between, Stop

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.
Tim Berners Lee

Important, Person, Between

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.
Fred Upton

Mean, American, Higher

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
Kamala Harris

Country, Easy, While

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
A. J. Liebling

Time, Travel, Political

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

Good, Service, Rights

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Anita Roddick

Religion, Politics, Business

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
Dan Aykroyd

Enemy, America, Common

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
John Stossel

Learned, Off, Market

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel

Government, Before, Problem

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
Alexander Wang

Focus, Responds

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
Alexander Wang

Girl, Thinking, Place

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.
Kevin Rollins

Struggle, Players, Industry

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Food, Both, Fair

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
Donna Tartt

Made, Days, Line

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Steve Case

Game, Hard, Learned

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I.
Matthew Lesko

Government, Hard, Worst

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
Martin Feldstein

Time, Home, Same

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
Steve Largent

Business, Demand, Respond

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.
Richard King

End, Off, Assume

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
Melissa Bean

Fight, Financial, Worked

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
George Papandreou

Strong, Confidence, Problems

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.
Mike Johanns

Science, Goal, Sound

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.
Mike Johanns

Enjoy, Meat, Poultry

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
Ed Markey

American, Chance, Against

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
Esther Dyson

Hell, Paradise, Worker

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