"I mean, to see an entire body of law just destroyed. I mean, that can't possibly be right."
"If they're reading a fair use prevails, is that fair use is going to be the exception that swallowed the rule."
"I sure really wish that Congress would do something about this."
"Do we want all the news and information in this Nation to be controlled by two or three companies? I certainly don't."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for convening this hearing."
"the reason that the public can't separate fact from fiction is in the case of these images."
"Senator Blumenthal has just done tremendous, tremendous work chairing this Committee."
"It's always, theoretically, we should put safeguards in place for real people. But when you come to do it, it's, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we can't."
"I think quite simply, if Congress could clarify that the use of our content and other publisher content for training and output of AI models is not fair use, then the free market will take care of the..."
"Missouri v. Biden is a case brought by my State against the Biden Administration and various agencies of the government."
"If we cannot have free speech in this country, we cannot have free elections in this country, and we do not have a democracy."