David Cohen Quotes

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.

Effective competition requires that traders have large freedom of action when conducting their own affairs.

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

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

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.

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

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

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.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

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

I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

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.

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

In law school, I never understood [antitrust law]. I later found out, in reading the writings of those who now do understand it, that I should not have understood it because it did not make any sense then.

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.

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.

I'm a natural-born trust-buster.

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

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

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

The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.