Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank my friend from Massachusetts for not just today but all of the years in which he has led this battle. He is right. We have served together now in both Chambers and, in fact, when I was here and he was in the other body, we talked often about why this was such a bedrock principle. You know, sometimes you listen to the head of the FCC and you get the sense that somehow he is saying that the internet either is broken or is about to break--that some horrendous set of problems are going to ensue without his ill-advised ideas. The fact is that the internet is not broken. The Federal Communications Commission is not trying to help consumers by rolling back net neutrality protections. They are doing it to make it easier for the big cable companies to be in a position to shove out true and real competition. That, I would say to my friend Senator Markey and my friend from Hawaii, Senator Schatz, who has been championing these efforts in the Commerce Committee, is what this is really all about. You know, the reality is that the internet is now the shipping lane for the 21st century. It is that place--a global marketplace--where you have the free exchange of ideas, and today's rules protect that shipping lane of the 21st century--the freedom for Americans and people worldwide to compete online. It exists so that the powerful interests, those who have the deepest pockets, do not go out and swallow the little guys up every single time.…”