Chellie Pingree Quotes

It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality.

The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

I support a free and open Internet.

As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with over a million signatures asking that Net Neutrality be made law.

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.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

Without net neutrality protections, the Internet would no longer be a free and open ecosystem for innovation.

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

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

We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.

Net neutrality rules ensure an equal playing field on the web for everyone, from the start-up to the tech giant.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.

Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished.

Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.

Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.

Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so great - and so vital for innovation and creativity.

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

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

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.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.