Becomes Quote by Scott Gottlieb

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

Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black…

— James Morcan

One dirty tactic big pharmaceutical companies use is keeping drug prices artificially high through anti-competitive conduct, such as paying competitors millions of dollars to…

— Mike Braun

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

— Milton Friedman

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that…

— Matt Gonzalez

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

— Amy Klobuchar

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

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by…

— Michael K. Simpson

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

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

— Scott Gottlieb

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on…

— Sam Branson

In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one…

— Noam Chomsky