Top 22 Gordon Smith Quotes

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Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.
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If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV ‘haves and have-nots,’ they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation’s only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.
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The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged – the elderly and the disadvantaged who can’t afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
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History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption – demonstrating a quantifiable value for ‘must-have’ broadcast programming.
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My mother always said, ‘The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.’
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Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
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My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
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The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
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For years, broadcasters didn’t get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
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We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable – greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
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I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.
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Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
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Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.
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As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
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Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.
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Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity.
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On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race – and there aren’t many – a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.
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I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.
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The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
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In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It’s all changed now, obviously.
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I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
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When there’s an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
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