Antitrust Quotes:

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

- Isabel Paterson

topic: Law, Freak, Stand Alone, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

topic: Past, Cures, Standards, Recurrence, Antitrust

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

topic: Law, Creating, United States, Law Firms, Monsanto

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

topic: Microsoft, Tests, Information, Information Science, Monsanto

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

topic: Europe, Profound, Justice, Antitrust

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

topic: Government, Law, Numbers, Lengthy, Antitrust

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

topic: Block, Law, Competition, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

- Al Franken

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

topic: Law, Competition, Competing, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

topic: Successful, Men, Law, Collusion, Prosecution

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

topic: Business, Profound, Competition, Prosecution, Antitrust

This antitrust thing will blow over.

- Bill Gates

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

topic: Antitrust

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

topic: Warning, Enforcement, Periods, Antitrust

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

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

topic: Thinking, Law, Worry, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

- Al Franken

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

topic: Technology, Practice, Challenges, Antitrust

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

source: Source: www.usatoday.com

topic: Microsoft, Action, Ibm, Antitrust

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

- Jill Stein

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

topic: Real, Media, Law, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Hands, Government, Regulation, Vigilant, Antitrust

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

- Zephyr Teachout

topic: Thinking, Goal, Way, Antitrust

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

source: Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

topic: Media, Law, Risk, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

topic: Party, Government, Law, Antitrust, Antitrust Laws

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

topic: New York, Technology, Competition, Carrier, Antitrust

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

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

topic: Antitrust, Market Failure

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

topic: Operating Systems, Filing, Antitrust, Browsers

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

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

topic: Needs, Facts, Merit, Antitrust

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

topic: Sports, Law, Nfl, Exemption, Antitrust

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

- Harold L. Vogel

topic: Reality, Different, Stories, Antitrust