Antitrust Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. My advice is to sell any high tech company when the United States brings an antitrust suit, not because the company will be harmed by the suit, but because by the time the government understands a tech business well enough to sue it, the world has moved on.

John McGinnis

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. This antitrust thing will blow over.

Bill Gates

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

Isabel Paterson

#9. 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

#10. From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.

Marvin Ammori

#11. Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.

Marvin Ammori

#12. (When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became

Bill Bryson

#13. 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

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

Al Franken

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

Orrin Hatch

#16. 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

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

Al Franken

#18. and from the enactment in 1890 of the Sherman Act, the first of the great federal antitrust statutes. And

E. Allan Farnsworth

#19. Apple Settles E-Book Antitrust Case Reuters

Anonymous

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

Robert Kennedy

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Zephyr Teachout

#26. 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

#27. Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

Mario Monti

#28. 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

#29. Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.

Marvin Ammori

#30. 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