Ajit Pai Quotes

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

When prices are transparent and competition is encouraged, consumers win. We believe that can prove true in health care as it has in every other area of the American economy.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody; it's not red or blue.

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

there are times when we need to step in to make sure that competition works the way it should. By doing that, we help the market to work fairly, because competition gives consumers the power to demand a fair deal. It means that companies know that if they cannot offer good prices or the service that's expected, well, the customers will go somewhere else.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

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.

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

I support social market economy. But it only works if there is fair competition.

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

I think competition always produces better results than a monopoly.

I'm a market person, but there are certain circumstances where you've got to have government put up the guardrails or bust up entrenched interests before they become too powerful.

Mexico is a market economy, but we should have better markets.

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on the premise of consumerism.