(56 quotes found)
“These anti-competitive settlements in the pharmaceutical industry are a major anti-trust problem. These settlements are thwarting competition and depriving consumers of the benefits of low-cost generic drugs.”
Carl Shapiro
“I had one pharmaceutical saleswoman client -- young and attractive -- who would kiss and hug her clients. Then she saw one doctor at dinner and gave him a kiss and hug. His wife didn't appreciate that, and it was not appropriate.”
Barbara Pachter
“It's Orwellian. The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it.”
Richard Gephardt
“Our goal is not to be just one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, but also to be one of the fastest growing,”
Raymond Gilmartin
“There's a large number of acquisitions of companies or mergers [happening], with most generated from [pharmaceutical] companies.”
Richard Kollender
“I don't have an inside line to (the pharmaceutical association), but I suspect they won't be too broken up if people decide, 'We can't tell which is which, so we're voting against both of them,' ”
Jack Pitney
“Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.”
Jane Rissler
“We're just not going to sit back and continue to allow the big, powerful pharmaceutical industry to price gouge the senior citizens and working people of our state. People should be able to afford the medicine they need and they should be able to get the best price they can for it.”
Rod Blagojevich
“SmithKline is central to the restructuring of the pharmaceutical industry that is going on at the moment. With a 2 percent share of prescription drugs they need to get bigger. But they are also the right size for some of the market leaders to find them attractive,”
John Reeve
“This is what happens when you privatize Medicare. The Medicare prescription drug benefit is a massive giveaway to pharmaceutical companies, creating disastrous health effects for the nation's poor and elderly citizens.”
Pedro Rodriguez
