Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Ajit Pai - Page 2

The FCC's job is not to put a finger in the wind and decide which way the winds are blowing; it's to look at the facts and make a sober judgment based on what the law is.

Light touch regulation means that we create broad regulatory frameworks that can protect consumers to ensure an overall competitive marketplace.

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.

The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.

To realize the promise of 5G, we will need smart networks, not dumb pipes. Dumb pipes won't deliver smart cities. Dumb pipes won't enable millions of connected, self-driving cars to navigate the roads safely at the same time.

I'm not an IT expert myself.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

We all have an interest in an open Internet.

The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.

I believe in the First Amendment.

I'm a lawyer by training, of course.

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

President Clinton got it right in 1996 when he established a free-market-based approach to this new thing called the Internet, and the Internet economy we have is a result of his light-touch regulatory vision.

I oppose any proposal for the federal government to build and operate a nationwide 5G network.

Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.

Forty-six years after my parents' journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation's chief communications regulator.

I think it's dangerous to make a decision based on where one thinks the public may or may not be. Aside from the fact that that's not what the law prescribes, it's also, I think, not what reasoned decision-making is all about... You always try to look at the facts and apply the law faithfully.

My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.

The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s.

One of the great joys of my job is having the privilege of meeting people from all across the country and hearing their stories.

Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.

The Internet has enriched my own life immeasurably.

The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.