"Citizens perceive the states as being the consumer protector.
Warren's a real consumer protector who could put the faux populists to shame.
"He's not an ideological consumer protector, in the sense that he doesn't think all banks are bad, and he doesn't think that all financial products are bad".
A strong consumer protector will ensure tough consumer protections for years, as the agency's staff and the director's successors will take their cue from precedent; a weak chief nearly guarantees an ineffectual agency that will fall short of the promises advocated by the soon-to-be enacted financial reform legislation.
Unlike the State Insurance Commissioner, who is publicly elected to serve as the ultimate consumer protector, the citizens of California have no say in who is appointed to this "independent commission" whereas the Insurance Commissioner is publicly accountable and can be voted out of office.
Its job is to be "the" single-focused consumer protector in the financial services area consolidating powers of seven (count 'em -- seven) regulatory agencies that kept falling over each other for decades and never fully protected the interests of the American people.
They found these alcohols in seven materials including paint and polish additives, consumer carpet protector sprays, and windshield wiper fluid.
There is no need for the regulation of business – even builders or Big Pharma – he argued, as "the 'greed' of the businessman or, more appropriately, his profit-seeking … is the unexcelled protector of the consumer".
Brice Hortefeux, the deputy interior minister and one of Sarkozy's oldest friends, said, "What he has to do now is to demonstrate his best qualities, to show that he is not only a fighter but a protector — that he will protect the people who work, that he will protect the consumer, and most important, that he is the protector of our citizens, the one who fights crime for their security".
And the firm is moving into the consumer market with the new C2 Personal Protector.
