Political Quotes

“Public interest is kind of like art or beauty: It is in the eye of the beholder. When we talk about putting up different barriers, we are really saying that it is going to be a select few who will decide who gets in the business and who does not, where I think most of us believe that the marketplace should dictate that, because from that comes perfection, and from that comes a very competitive medicine: Lower rates for everybody who wants to use that service. There are those who serve in this body and those who will serve without this body that can take a public service interest before the FCC and completely delay the advancement of any kind of technology or any kind of deployment of any kind of services in the telecommunications industry by just a delaying tactic that would prevent any kind of progress to be made in that area. Whenever we start talking about this industry, what are we referring to? The Senator from Nebraska was saying there is no public clamor for change in this area, but there is a clamor to allow new technologies to be introduced, to do more things with the tools that we have now.”