Chellie Pingree Quotes

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

I'm for Internet openness. We're all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in favor of it.

I support a free and open Internet.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

Much of the civil rights work of this century will entail championing digital rights.

I can say our strategy has always been and will continue to be getting our content in front of as many consumers around the globe as we can... AT&T has been an advocate of the tenets of no blocking, no discrimination, no paid prioritization.

The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.

As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.