Michael O'Rielly Quotes

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

The perception of broadcasters as community trustees should be replaced by a view of broadcasters as marketplace participants.

“If the United States…can pass laws to block media cross ownership within one market to protect the diversity of voices, then we in Canada must ask ourselves why we do not seem to attach the same importance to that important principle.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters and somehow we must find some new way of using radio and television to allow us to talk to each other.

In the end, I am confident that we can revise our rules to provide necessary and appropriate flexibility for local broadcasters while preserving and/or improving the experience of those watching children's programming.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

It is a tragedy when you pay to make a public broadcaster survive.

People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots of different ways you could do that.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.