Monopolies Quotations

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

If what we understand is being considered, this is a huge step . . . in the wrong direction. Essentially, you have the government picking winners and losers by giving the Bell monopolies a special break.

It is all too difficult to carry out any reforms ... in the conditions of such an ugly market, where competition is non-existent, monopolies are rampant, where rules are few -- you understand,

It is important to take stock of where we are in 2006. In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of recreating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

Long range, what this really does is set the stage for super-media monopolies to control online communication through combinations of phone, newspaper and broadcast television mergers.

The antitrust people never seemed to catch on that suburban monopolies act in the way that urban monopolies do.

The government's role is necessary for big deals; foreign parties are monopolies while Chinese parties are diversified and do not have significant bargaining power.

What is noticeable from the moves of the administration is that they are merely concerned with short-term responses that aim to elicit short-term public approval. Why is it that the oil monopolies and their profits remain untouchable? Why is it that the oil deregulation law remains untouchable?

Cost reduction remains critical. All industry partners and stakeholders will have to sustain their focus on fuel efficiency and attack costs. While we have made some good progress, the road ahead is long. Far too many airport monopolies do not understand the need for efficiency and too many governments are shirking their responsibility to regulate where commercial discipline is absent.

These sensibilities are old, 19th century, republican ideals. That attitude has pretty much gone away. I've been reading muckraking books from the 1930s, when there was still this intense hatred and fear of monopolies - especially newspaper chains.

They're expecting to collect rent. Whether its government contracts or monopolies or lucrative business deals.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

In the last decade, the Bell monopolies have all but wiped out their telephone competitors; they have swallowed their long-distance competitors; and with the announcement of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, they are on the verge of re-creating Ma Bell. And only one competitor really stands in their way: the cable industry.

In the past 10 years, under the old rules, cable companies have been virtual monopolies and their rates have climbed unchecked.

He said on the House floor that he was never a Populist, never a Prohibitionist, and that people were mistaken to think that. And he began to support the bills the (oil) monopolies wanted. The only thing that offset the change was that he was no longer involved because he had lost interest.

The Ma Bell bogeyman isn't that big a deal politically anymore. The reason these companies are merging is because they are no longer the dominant monopolies they were 20 years ago.

A huge swing factor is whether complacent telecommunications monopolies are left standing, ... If so, progress will be very slow, as in the past.

The future of our telecom market is not in establishing new monopolies on the basis of the old ones, which over the years we have managed to dismantle.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.