Agency Quote by Thomas Frank

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective…

— Ben Bernanke

We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns of local…

— Barry Gardiner

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

— Desmond Tutu

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

— Gary Hamel

Markets - on their own - will not make investments in the technologies and infrastructure that would benefit an entire industry.

— Brian Deese

Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our…

— Scott Pruitt

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has…

— Elizabeth Warren

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

— John Stossel

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely…

— Rebecca Solnit

We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world,…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin