Ro Khanna Quotes

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

I think we need to have stronger antitrust enforcement.

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.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

The so-called anti-trust laws were intended to prevent the creation of monopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies

Possible economies cannot be used as a defense to illegality. Congress was aware that some mergers which lessen competition may also result in economies but it struck the balance in favor of protecting competition.

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.

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

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.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

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

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.

All the authorities agree that in order to vitiate a contract or combination it is not essential that its result should be a complete monopoly; it is sufficient if it really tends to that end and to deprive the public of the advantages which flow from free competition.

One of President Reagan's first and wisest initiatives was to effectively shutdown the anti-trust division of the Justice Department.

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.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

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.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

In this country in colonial days the laws were very strict against combinations and contracts in restraint of trade. But here again there was a gradual amelioration of the laws, until co-operation was permitted along many lines, including division of territory, limitation of output, and even fixing of prices; provided always that, as a result of the co-operation, the combinations or contracts did not result in monopoly, were not general, were not immoral, and were not contrary to public policy.

If, as you say, the success of commercial society depends upon the full play of competition, why do not you and your confreres turn your attention and direct the shafts of your attacks against the trusts and corporations

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.

Consumers depend on us to make sure that competition is fair and open, and it's my responsibility to make that happen.

It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.

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