Steven Wright Quotes

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

The holder of a monopoly is a sinner and offender.

To control the American market is to own America.

… a union of power in the same hands over industry, commerce and finance, with a resulting power over public affairs.

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

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

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

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 big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce … to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce.

Monopolies have good sides to them as well as bad sides to them.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

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

The great issue before the American people today is the control of Government and industry by private monopoly.