Big Quote by Mike Braun

So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they…

— Donald Kennedy

Some big pharmaceutical companies have engaged in dirty tricks to extend their patents, holding monopolies on certain drugs to pad their profits at consumers'…

— Mike Braun

Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.

— Amy Klobuchar

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

— Scott Gottlieb

The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.

— J. D. Vance

I have successfully challenged the Western world's existing model of pharmaceutical innovation, which leads to the creation of monopolistic markets for novel, life-saving drugs…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Pharma has a lot of lobbies and a lot of lobbyists and a lot of power and there's very little bidding on drugs. America…

— Donald Trump

The higher cost of getting a generic drug approved by regulators means that many old medicines don't face competitors. It's only after substantial price…

— Scott Gottlieb

Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs.…

— Marcia Angell

When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.

— Scott Gottlieb

One of the biggest factors fueling the angst over drug prices in the U.S. is that some older medicines that should be sold cheaply…

— Scott Gottlieb

Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than…

— Marcia Angell