Political Quotes

“my colleague, the senior Senator from Utah came to the Senate floor earlier today to continue his lonely and increasingly unsuccessful battle against Microsoft. His statement comes one day after the successful release of Microsoft's latest operating system software, Windows 98, and only three days after Microsoft won a major victory in a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Senator Hatch said this morning that he is disappointed that Microsoft ``has regrettably seen fit to deploy a massive PR campaign, as opposed to engaging the American public on the basis of the facts and the merits.'' I find Senator Hatch's comments interesting, given that the appeals court panel took a long hard look at the very facts that Senator Hatch and the Department of Justice claim Microsoft is hiding and ruled that Microsoft's integration of Internet Explorer in Windows 95 is not a violation of U.S. antitrust law or of the 1995 consent decree. The ruling is significant because it covers the same issue that is the central focus of the Justice Department's current case against Microsoft--whether Microsoft can innovate by integrating new products, namely Internet Explorer, into Windows 98.”