Antitrust Quotes

• As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

  Isabel Paterson

  Law, Freak, Stand Alone

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

  Charles James

  Past, Cures, Standards

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• The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Law, Creating, United States

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Microsoft, Tests, Information

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• I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

  Mario Monti

  Europe, Profound, Justice

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• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  Harold H. Greene

  Numbers, Government, Law

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• Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

  Henry Manne

  Block, Law, Competition

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• Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

  Al Franken

  Law, Competition, Competing

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue". Al Franken's speech to the American Bar Association Atnitrust Section, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

  Ayn Rand

  Successful, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Profound, Competition

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• This antitrust thing will blow over.

  Bill Gates

  Blow, Foresight

  "Gates Quoted As Seeing Case 'Blow Over'" by Steve Lohr, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 1998.

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• You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

  Neelie Kroes

  Enforcement, Warning, Periods

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Law, Worry

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Practice, Challenges

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

  Stephen Manes

  Microsoft, Action, Ibm

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Media, Law

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  Orrin Hatch

  Hands, Government, Regulation

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• My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, Goal, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.

  Jill Stein

  Media, Law, Risk

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.

  Ilana Mercer

  Party, Government, Law

  "Party of Traitors". www.wnd.com. May 26, 2006.

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• A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

  Peter Gallagher

  New York, Technology, Competition

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• Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Ideas, Information

  "The day Bill Gates didn't call me a communist". Interview with Philip Elmer-DeWitt, David S. Jackson, fortune.com. June 28, 2008.

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• We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Firsts, Integrating

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• We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Needs, Facts, Merit

  "Justice Department Investigates Possible Collusion In U.S. Airline Industry". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 1, 2015.

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• A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sports, Law, Nfl

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