Michael Powell Quotations

There are a lot of safety rules and rules against cheating. It's really no more harmful than any other sport.

I have heard the concerns expressed by the public about excessive consolidation, ... They have introduced a note of caution in the choices we have made.

Here's the truth: the ownership debate is about nothing but content. Don't be fooled. I mean, this is my greatest warning to the American public.

Our job is to make (in-flight) communications possible,

validate the purpose of a rule in the modern context or eliminate it. It's as simple as that.

We are undertaking a comprehensive exercise to retool and refocus the FCC. To do that, I want to ensure that the commission has a clear policy vision to guide our deliberations with some predictability,

We are struggling with cost issues and trying to understand what products will be and what consumers will want and be willing to pay for in the future,

This merger is particularly challenging to review, not so much because of its size, but because of its novelty, ... It's difficult to grasp the impact on consumers in markets that have barely emerged.

There was a way to call the police, to call ambulance services, long before 911,

The benefits of this transaction are considerable; the potential harms negligible,

In 1996, Congress gave us a very difficult task, which is to bring these rules up to date in the modern media marketplace,