Adrian Cronauer Quotes

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

Ideally, the ITU must be made up of truly visionary leaders - those willing to do the hard work to get critical spectrum bands realigned and put to their highest use.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

Increasingly, meeting the connectivity needs of all Americans - no matter where you live - means freeing up spectrum to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband.

Some may say that it's wrong for the government to meddle in what private companies are doing, but phone radio waves belong to the people.

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.