Peter Shumlin Quotes

Approximately 82% of the American people believe labeling should take place with regard to genetically engineered ingredients. All over this country people are increasingly concerned about the quality of the food they are ingesting and the food they are giving to their kids. People want to know what is in their food, and I believe that is a very reasonable request.

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.

Whether Congress decides to block GMO labeling is about more than the right to know what we're buying and eating. It's also about consumer confusion.

The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.

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

I think people need to know what they're eating. That's why I support "country of origin" labeling. That's why I support labeling of GMO's.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

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

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.

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.

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

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

A man may not sell above the current price, i.e., such a price as is usual in the time and place, and as another (who knows the worth of the commodity) would give for it When a man loseth in his commodity for want of skill, etc., he must look at it as his own fault or cross, and therefore must not lay it upon another

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

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

The first is determining how to deal with the great industrial combinations is knowledge of the facts—publicity.