Monopoly Quotes

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

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

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.