Brendan Carr

"he hoped broadcasters would pledge to show civics programs to fulfill their public interest mandate to serve the needs and interests of their local communities as America’s 250th birthday celebration marches on."

"I believe in the greatness of our country."

"Broadcasters can voluntarily choose to indicate their commitment to the Pledge America Campaign."

"The media should feel a bit ashamed for having been lied to."

"I am calling on broadcasters to pledge to provide programming that promotes civic education, national pride, and our shared history."

"As part of this effort, I am calling on broadcasters to pledge to provide programming that promotes civic education, national pride, and our shared history."

"The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licences if they do not."

"The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not."

"Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up."

"If you care about local news, you should care about the future of local broadcast stations."

"to secure America's critical supply chains"

"If broadcasters don't like that, that's okay."

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way."

"The acquisition could potentially bring a new competitor to an emerging market."

"What we’ve seen so far is that the foreign ownership they’re taking would qualify, under our rules as bona fide debt."

"There’s evidence that Disney has been pretty bad. There’s evidence suggests that Disney literally was dividing and categorizing employees based on race and gender."

"Scale matters a lot in today's modern connectivity market, and the spectrum is going in the hands of players that are lighting it up, immediately, loading it up, using it to bridge the digital divide."