Dan Glickman Quotes

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.

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

Tough enforcement of the antitrust laws can help prevent a recurrence of inflation by attacking abuses of economic power.

Likewise let butchers, fishmongers, hostlers, brewers, bakers, pullers and all other vendors of any victuals, be bound to sell such victuals for a reasonable price, having regard for the price at which such victuals are sold in the adjoining places: so that such vendors may have moderate gains, not excessive…

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice.

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

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.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

The only place you have real monopolies is where government provides them.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

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

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

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

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.