Jesse Jackson Quotes

Regulators will issue regulations until someone says no.

President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Television is just another appliance–it's a toaster with pictures.

No business is above government, and government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above government.

Regulation has crept up on us steadily…. The most alarming feature of this concentration of power in the Federal government is the creation of omnipotent commissions to exercise it. The new fields of Federal control are administered by small Boards or executive commissions, usually appointed by the President and responsible to no one but the President. They are part of the Executive Department. But their function is not executive only. They have two additional functions: one is legislative, the other is judicial. These commissions write the rules which make the laws effective. Then they administer the rules; and when the rules are violated, they it in judgment on the violations.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them.

Telephone and cable monopolies were positioning themselves to compete with one another.

The railroads saw that they must either accept control by the State of control the State.

It was pretty seamy stuff for the middle of the afternoon.

A power to regulate trade, is a power to make all needful rules and regulations concerning trade. Why may it not, then, include that of erecting a trading company, as well as, in other cases, to erect a government ?

The most frequent request we get at the FCC is from companies who say, “Please regulate my rival.” The Commission can become a new tool for competitive strategy.

Many advantages … may be gained through the establishment of trade commissions, national and state. At first, we should be conservative in giving additional powers to these commissions. The powers given should be based upon the same principles that have been applied in the pure-food laws, and in the control of the public utilities. The American people always move slowly in these matters, and step by step. I should not expect that these trade commissions, if created, would at once be granted all the powers which they would finally exercise. In this matter I should expect the same slow development to take place that has occurred regarding the commissions which control the public utilities.

Regulators are very heavily lobbied and they tend to give in…. We must have strong, vigilant, regulators.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.