Competition Quote by Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

— Chuck Grassley

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell…

— Olympia Snowe

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

— Chuck Grassley

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not…

— Stephen Harper

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is…

— Thomas Szasz

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want…

— Bill Maher

“countries are producing medications for their own citizens, not ours. This is one of the unintended consequences of outsourcing a manufacturing process as critical…

— Bobby Akart

The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now…

— Michael K. Simpson

We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and…

— Thabo Mbeki

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has…

— Alberto Fujimori

We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism…

— Otto Perez Molina

“The average American is unaware of this system—the patenting of drugs from nature, the renewal of patents based on insignificant changes, the aggressive marketing…

— Robert B. Reich