Michael J. Copps Quotes

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Television is just another appliance–it's a toaster with pictures.

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

Evil communication, wicked, profane, impure, filthy and obscene songs, composures, writings or print corrupt the mind and are all incentive to all manner of impurities and debaucheries.

The most frequent request we get at the FCC is from companies who say, “Please regulate my rival.” The Commission can become a new tool for competitive strategy.

You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it's just like a tacky drag queen.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a radio frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... There is no sanctuary in the First Amendment for unlimited private censorship operating in a medium not open to all.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.... It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.

Many people here are completely unsuitable for shaping public opinion. I am going to weed them out.

To save my live I cannot see what right we have to control the air that God Almighty gave the people.

... a sensual and depraved people in our midst.

… an anomalous, not to say scandalous, condition.

We don't have the right under the 1st Amendment to act as the national program director.

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

I am no longer fit for these times. We are in a new era to which I do not belong.