Political Quotes

“I just want to say in the Senate, in my time in this body, this is one of the most stunning abuses of power I have seen in my time of public service. I think my colleague knows that I was sitting until 5 minutes ago in the Ways and Means Committee, where I was invited to testify about Social Security, and I was given a message that the Senator from Missouri was going to stand up and basically try to throw in the garbage can a bipartisan law that I and a conservative Republican, former Congressman Chris Cox--well known to conservatives--wrote because as we thought about the formulation of technology policy, our big concern was for the little guy, for the person who didn't have power, the person who didn't have clout. We were picking up accounts that if they were just trying to come out with their invention--might be something they put up on a website or a blog--they could be held personally liable for something that was posted on their sites that they had no idea about. So we said: We can't do that to the little guy. We can't strip them of their voice. By the way, my concern about the little guy that led to the passage of this law is something I continue to focus on today. This law is hugely important to movements like Me Too and Black Lives Matter because it gives Americans the opportunity to see the messages they want to get out. We all see the videos. Frankly, establishment media wouldn't even run a lot of it because they would be sued.…”