Gordon Smith Quotations

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

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.

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.

Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

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.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

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.

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.

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.

When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.

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.

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.

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.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

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.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

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

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

The person was known. People were identifying him from inside of the store shortly after the call came in.

Three thousand area landowners were notified that a wall was going to be built.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

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.

He just took it hard to the basket. He used his ability to maneuver inside.

I support the decision to bring CIDA more closely to the overall foreign affairs portfolio.

Our coastal communities are the living legacy of Oregon's hard-working, innovative and responsible fishing industry. Increased investment in fishery habitat and tsunami warning research promises a boost to the local economy and a safer, more prepared coastline.

Riordan is the only one who they might try and move on if they get a decent offer. Caldwell possibly going to Celtic is the other one, but I think that is likelier to happen at the end of the season. They're all playing regular, top-team football so there's no great need for them to leave. One or two of the bigger clubs might let their players go on loan to smaller clubs and Kilmarnock might be on the lookout for a striker now that Boyd's gone.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

The predicate for this entire budget ... is the tobacco settlement. There isn't a bigger question mark in this Congress right now than whether that will ever occur.

We are introducing the 'Tax Exempt Political Disclosure Act' to bring sunshine to our campaign finance laws and to provide full disclosure of groups which have heretofore not been held accountable but have been subsidized by the American people.

This starts at 4 o'clock in the morning with trucks -- the Sears store, Home Depot, the cement plant. That is when your day begins and it doesn't stop until 10, 11 p.m.

There is no requirement with respect to the nationality of who owns a brokerage. Individual brokers and salespeople must be Canadian residents, but the ownership of the brokerage is not regulated from the perspective of the nationality or location of its owners. The Act 's purpose is protection of the public, it is not intended to regulate foreign investment.

Bottom line, in your judgment, and in Brown & Williamson's judgment, does smoking cause lung cancer?

As time goes by, and people see their industry or company is not so stable, they're sensing a downward track. They're more likely to take offers today than 10 years ago because they're not so certain the jobs will still be there.

Due to the changing nature and increasing complexity of both the payment and travel industries, we have decided to name two senior leaders who will manage, in tandem, the two sides of the business for the global customer segment.

I've never seen an elected group of people so unresponsive to what people are asking for.

Provided there are no further power outages and we are able to start up by Thursday this week, production should be back to normal by this time next week.

Provided there are no further power outages and we are able to begin the start-up process by Thursday this week, production should be back to normal by this time next week.

This is a public relations problem that you have.

They've been turning off dams, tearing them out, shutting down nuclear reactors, preventing new utilities from being sited, ... We as their neighbors should not have to pick up their tab. It's just really a question of fairness.

This is the right thing to do. It's the right time to do it.

They're not convinced that everything was being done that could be done.

At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is inappropriate to move forward on ... a legislative package that would cut funding for Medicaid, food stamps ... housing and education.

It's not getting better fast enough to prevent a collapse of the system. They just cannot stand it anymore.

I've been working for the company for 26 years, and I have never seen anything like that.

I intend to. I have a duty to and I intend to reach out to him and if he wants to reach out to me, he'll find me a constructive participant.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all-change now, obviously.

I'm not sure we will ever have the privilege of voting on a nominee who is more intelligent than John Roberts, ... His integrity is beyond reproach as well. There's been no hint of any scandal.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

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.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

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.