“regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.” KindProductsSafetyMethodProductionsFraudRegulationPreventionFabricationPublic SafetyPrescribing Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.” MayAbleCommunityNaturalNumbersAcceptingCrimeMovementProductsLessonsAbsolutesSafetyPunishmentCommitCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Marlo Thomas
“Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” WellsKindWaterResultsCarProductsSafetyWestCreditConsumersMeatRegulationToysBuyersAspirinWild WestToasters Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.” NeedsLooksCountryHardTodayProductsDrugBenefitsSafetyTestingGmos Author:Bill Gates
“The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.” CasesSuccessfulInformationProductsWake UpSafetyLawyerMuseumsDefectsAutomobileLegislatureCover UpsRegulators Author:Ralph Nader
“If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.” IfsRealWaterSubjectsProductsGunSafetyConsumersRegulationToysPistolsGun SafetyToy Guns Author:Michael D. Barnes
“If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.” IfsYearsHas BeensProductsYears AgoCrisisSafetyFinancialCurrentsFinancial CrisisAvert Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.” IdeasReasonCertainStrongUnderstandingClearEmotionalProductsHabitConsequenceSafetyVariousIdeologyTiesRitualFormulasVery StrongActuality Book:The Liberal Imagination Source: The Liberal Imagination
“We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.” BelieveDoeRealReasonUseTodayLyingEnergySocialAnswersEnvironmentExampleProductsCostBasesSafetyWorkersRenewable EnergyPricingHealth And Safety Author:Richard M. Nixon
“To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.” EndsPastWaitingCasesViolenceEffectsProductsPeriodsWeaponsTrainingGunCrisisSafetyBackgroundsChecksAssaultBansFirearmsGun ViolenceHandgunsRegistrationAssault WeaponsLicensingBackground Checks Author:Josh Sugarmann
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.” ShouldMadeNatureGoneTreeRocksProductsCoupleSafetyLocalsConsumersParksRegulationPlasticHazardsPlaygroundsStumpsTripping Author:Lenore Skenazy