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If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources…

— Ben Carson

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

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest…

— James Surowiecki

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent…

— Yusuf Hamied

And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want…

— Elton John

Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is…

— Hillary Clinton

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

— Barack Obama

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go…

— Alex Berenson

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

— Harold E. Varmus

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