"the urgency here demands action."
"the White House certainly has recognized the urgency with a historic meeting of the seven major companies which made eight profoundly significant commitments."
"This is the moment. And the fact that this has been bipartisan so far..."
"I actually think that if we don't act soon, we could decay into not just partisanship but inaction."
"I'm particularly interested... on the election side and democracy and making sure that we do not have these ads that aren't the real people."
"Senator Blumenthal and I have worked together for nearly 4 years on looking at social media and the harms that have happened to our Nation's youth."
"It wasn't intended. Social media wasn't intended--the intent was not to harm children, cause mental health crisis, put children in touch with drug dealers and pedophiles."
"In many instances, let's be very blunt, agencies become captive of the industries they're supposed to regulate."
"I would hope that you would endorse that idea."
"I don't think it's going to happen. We right now have a gold rush, literally much like the Gold Rush that we had in the Wild West."
"Hard to produce a superhuman thinking machine if you don't allow humans to think."
"the Government has an obligation to invest--I think all of you would agree--invest in safety."