"If civil liberties and legal rights exist only in the absence of a neighbor's religious objection, then they are not rights, but empty promises."
"I commend my colleague, Jan Schakowsky, who has been a champion for consumers throughout her career."
"I want to know if you agree and, if so, would you consider taking action on this matter in the immediate future?"
"We will do so not because it is easy, but because it is hard."
"We choose to go to the moon not because it's easy but because it's hard."
"You have said over the course of questioning yesterday and today that users own all of their data."
"Understanding that, yes, if you dive into the details of your platform, users might be able to shut that off."
"I think one of the rubs that you are hearing is I don't understand how users then own that data."
"So can advertisers, either directly or indirectly, get access to or use the metadata that Facebook collects in order to more specifically target ads?"
"Candidly, looking at some of the testimony, I am not entirely certain I understand what those reservations are."
"So the point of the legislation is to try to make sure that consumers always have at least some knowledge as to and a voice in some of the decisions that are being done by FERC."