This is a particularly bad time to be sending the message to the terrorists in Iraq that we might be thinking of running just when they're running.

I think they are the right thing to do, and I believe the same is true with respect to the restoration of nondiscrimination provisions with respect to the Internet.

I want competition. I want there to be innovation.

I think my colleague Senator DeMint has given the most robust support for discrimination that I've heard here in the Senate for some while.

I still think there's room for improvement.

I support all of those.

the open architecture of the Internet proposal has become.

we've got to protect their right to do so.

this is a sweeping piece of legislation that we're looking at here.

Antitrust-law enforcement, in this town, is almost completely, thoroughly, totally nonexistent.

we all want to increase competition in the television market.

I look forward to continuing our work on this legislation in the days and months ahead.

I think the impact of no legislation is a structural change in the Internet, which would, for better or worse--I believe, for worse--change the way the Internet works.

Is there such a thing as a middle ground?

I remain deeply concerned that further advances are needed so that any new franchising process will preserve important consumer protections.

I am also troubled by our failure in the current draft to strengthen existing interconnection requirements.

I continue to be concerned by the lack of significant progress in a number of key areas.

I believe it should. I believe it is the cornerstone of what gave us the Internet through Title II.