The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need.

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.