Ajit Pai Quotes

Ajit Pai

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : January 10, 1973

One of the great joys of my job is having the privilege of meeting people from all across the country and hearing their stories.

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Now look: I love Twitter. But let's not kid ourselves; when it comes to a free and open Internet, Twitter is a part of the problem. The company has a viewpoint and uses that viewpoint to discriminate.

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High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.

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I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.

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The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

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In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.

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As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.

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Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

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Consumers and businesses alike value their ability to keep a phone number when changing providers or relocating. This concept is called 'number portability.'

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Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.

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My own view is that the Internet should be run by technologists and engineers and business people, not by lawyers and bureaucrats here in the nation's capital.

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I believe in the First Amendment.

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Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural telephone customers aren't always assured of that.

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The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.

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Heavy-handed regulations hurt the very consumers they're supposed to help.

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Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

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For too long, Americans have been plagued by unwanted and unlawful robocalls. For too long, they've found unauthorized charges and changes to their phone service on their bills - practices commonly known as 'slamming' and 'cramming.' And for too long, some phone calls that are placed to rural residents have been dropped.

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To those who wish to shape the nation's political dialogue, social media is dangerous.

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Entrepreneurs are constantly developing new technologies and services. But too often, they're unable to bring them quickly to market for consumers because regulatory inertia stands in the way. Unfortunately, the FCC can suffer from this government-wide problem.

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