Al Gore Quotes

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

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.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

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.

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 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.

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

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

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

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

The citizens of the several States composing the Union are entitled, of right, to buy goods in the State where they are manufactured, or in any other State, without being confronted by an illegal combination whose business extends throughout the whole country, which by the law everywhere is an enemy to the public interests, and which prevents such buying, except at prices arbitrarily fixed by it. I insist that the free course of trade among the States cannot coexist with such combinations.

Restrict the right of the rich to buy up any anything and everything, and then to exercise a kind of monopoly.

Neither this people or any other free people will permanently tolerate the use of the vast power conferred by vast wealth, and especially by wealth in its corporate form, without lodging somewhere in the government a still higher power of seeing that this power, in addition to being used in the interest of the individual or individuals possessing it, is also to be used for and not against the interests of the people as a whole…. [We must] keep the great highways of commerce open to all on reasonable and equitable terms.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

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

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.

Generally I'm against regulation.

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

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

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.

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.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

Combinations [large corporate conglomerates], governed entirely by the law of greed … threaten the integrity of our institutions.