Ajit Pai Quotes

United States, Director
January 10, 1973

Ajit Varadaraj Pai (/əˈdʒiːt ˈpaɪ/; born January 10, 1973) is a telecommunications director who serves as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He is the first Indian American to hold the office. He has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

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- Time
- Innovation
Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.

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The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.

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- Leadership
Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.

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- Help
High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.

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- Country
- High
- Giving
Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.

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- History
- Free
I support a free and open Internet.

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- Free
- Support
The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

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- Money
- Business
- Political

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

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- Innovation
The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

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- Work
- Help
There is no reason why any legitimate caller should be spoofing an unassigned or invalid number. And providers shouldn't be sued for doing the right thing by blocking illegitimate spoofing.

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- Why
Light touch regulation means that we create broad regulatory frameworks that can protect consumers to ensure an overall competitive marketplace.

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- Light
To those who wish to shape the nation's political dialogue, social media is dangerous.

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- Political
- Wish
You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are.

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- May
- Promise
- Safety

Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.

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- Identity