Government Quote by Ajit Pai

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation -…

— Ajit Pai

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

— Ajit Pai

President Clinton got it right in 1996 when he established a free-market-based approach to this new thing called the Internet, and the Internet economy…

— Ajit Pai

The government invented the Internet.

— Jon Meacham

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

— Jon Postel

The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

— Katya Chamma

We are committed to keeping the Internet open and free, and we are now advocating for the federal government to make subsidies for low-income…

— Maya Wiley

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the…

— Rick Boucher

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission…

— Mary Bono

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and…

— Julius Genachowski

“The internet could have been commercial rather than nonprofit, or a national system instead of international, or it could have been secret instead of…

— Kevin Kelly

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the…

— Tim Berners-Lee