Hector Ruiz Quotes

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.

Rules designed to ensure competition ensure that innovators with new ideas can challenge incumbents on a level playing field.

We ... deceive ourselves in believing that competition can secure for the public fair treatment in such cases.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm for strong antitrust enforcement.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Markets, when left to themselves, can sort of slip into being just the private property of big businesses and cartels, meeting the needs of some businesses and not the needs of customers.

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.

I'm a natural-born trust-buster.

I think we need to have stronger antitrust enforcement.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

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.

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