Al Franken Quotes

I support a free and open Internet.

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas.

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

It is absolutely clear to me that we have to keep the internet open

In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

I'm for Internet openness. We're all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in favor of it.

The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.

We all have an interest in an open Internet.

The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

I think we should not control the Internet.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.