Airwaves Quotations

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

That was much more dramatic in the newspapers and on the airwaves than it was in real life. Was I concerned? That's hard to say a yes or no answer to. I am human and you hear things from different places. But at no time did I ever feel like he was going to coach someplace else.

Unfortunately, this is very bad news for the White House -- and not just because of the inevitable late-night jokes that will inundate the airwaves over the next week.

There is a tremendous amount of critical and confidential information flying through the airwaves in the Georgia State Capitol. Our challenge is to keep this information secure while enabling wireless access.

The question is, 'what do we do?' as there is a view which says that anything artistic should not be censored because it is a creative expression, etc. But if it is having that kind of negative impact on our young people, that is something that we are fighting against, the violence and the aggression, then we have to do something about it. And my view is that these things should be censored, banned from the airwaves and the electronic media. I have no qualms about it.

We've heard the argument here now that the FCC is the one that ought to redefine the definition of indecency. Perhaps that is true. I find it objectionable that those who have been granted the free use of our airwaves would not see fit to restrain themselves within their own conduct to define conduct that is less than indecent, that is that which we've heard the use of the words crude, inappropriate.

This was something that was crackling over the airwaves immediately. If happiness could have been a cloud of red smoke, we wouldn't have been able to see our hands in front of our face. Amid all the death and destruction, it's amazing what one survivor can do to boost everybody's spirits.

This type of ad represents everything that is wrong with our political process today -- polluting our airwaves with smears on other candidates that have nothing to do with legitimate policy differences,

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

We're vehemently opposed for the simple reason that it's no one's right or prerogative to deny emergency communications to go through. That's why jamming is illegal. These are the public airwaves - they are for everyone, and everyone has a right to use them.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

There's no doubt whatsoever the FCC has jurisdiction in this area. We always have the right and responsibility to investigate any use of the public airwaves that has an effect on the public interest, particularly the interest of children.

There's no doubt whatsoever the FCC has jurisdiction in this area, ... We always have the right and responsibility to investigate any use of the public airwaves that has an effect on the public interest, particularly the interest of children.

I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

The sky was filled with helicopters, and the airwaves were full of guys going down all over the place.

They're basically starting a longer dialogue with voters so that they're not trying to fight in cluttered airwaves a month before the election.

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

The airwaves are supposed to belong to the public, but they really don't. Here, at our station, they do and for a reasonable amount of money.

I question what purpose is served by additional exposure to the salacious details contained in the Starr report, ... We must find a way to proceed and avoid further bombardment of the airwaves and Internet with such material.

Airwaves are a public resource. If the government does not have any other uses, it should fairly consider approving their application.

The front-loading process will hurt the Democratic nominee, ... We will have a nominee in middle to late January, while Republicans are dominating airwaves for weeks or months after that.