Gordon Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.
-- Gordon Smith

#Jobs #Records #Creation
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Communication #Air #Favors
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Pay #Tvs #Should
A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.
-- Gordon Smith

#People #Important #Fleeting
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
-- Gordon Smith

#Years #Selling #Nickels
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
-- Gordon Smith

#Player #Used #Sock
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.
-- Gordon Smith

#Kings #Stories #West
I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.
-- Gordon Smith

#Thinking #Iphone #Use
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#School #Opportunity #Giving
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Retirement #Children #Opportunity
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.
-- Gordon Smith

#Hate #Believe #Government
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
-- Gordon Smith

#Radio #Advertising #Grammy
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Business Deals #Media #Common Threads
I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
-- Gordon Smith

#Oregon #Senate
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Retirement #Emotional #Race
I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.
-- Gordon Smith

#Party #Oregon #Wish
I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.
-- Gordon Smith

#Sound #Imagine #Uncertain
My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
-- Gordon Smith

#Neighbor
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.
-- Gordon Smith

#Effort #President #Bail

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