I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on and you get home and you think 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.
The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers who become more concerned about quality of life food health and the environment.
As patients and consumers we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart consumerist choices about their own health care.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever it must go out and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Anyone who has played the game professionally you're always taught that the ball is the most important most precious thing so when the ball hits the ground it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.