"If you are confirmed, will you commit to us, Mr. Coker, that you will comply with statutes duly enacted that this body, Congress, enacts and writes into law."
"The finding of the court was the government basically turned these corporations into an arm of the Federal Government."
"We do not have government agencies, we do not have cut outs or front groups that appear to have support from those agencies, telling the American people what is true, what is false..."
"To that last point, we now know, thanks to the case of Missouri v. Biden, that that is exactly what this Administration... have all been meeting with the social media companies for years now..."
"I am not very happy about the fact that this Administration continues to flaunt, flout, completely ignore public law passed, again, unanimously by the U.S. Senate."
"We have seen it with the FBI. One of the things that we noted yesterday was that we saw perverse incentives in the FBI to go after so-called domestic violent extremism (DVE)..."
"I think it's safe to say that all of you are here today because you are opposed to government censorship."
"Yes. And again, a regime that is fundamentally evil, that is inflicting the kind of atrocities on its own citizens that you just alluded to, that is doing to the Uyghurs, what it's doing, that it's ru..."
"You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?"
"I don't want American companies to be aiding in any way the Chinese government and their oppressive tactics."
"There's no national security threat that is more significant for the United States than China."