Corporations consumers and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

The American consumer is also the American worker and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

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.

The American Dream coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

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

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns their communities will be consumed.

Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who of their own accord consume too much of a legal safe product.

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.

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

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods but family friends and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.