Edward Markey actually said...

"Without modern telecommunications technologies, we are going to leave behind too many people in our country."

"The Federal Communications Commission Act of 1934, it has at its core this principle of universal service."

"We don't want to have a digital divide in the country. We don't want digital haves and digital have-nots."

"I think that in the same way that a black, rotary-dial phone played that huge role in the 20th century, for better or worse, broadband, the Internet, is now economic oxygen for every family in America..."