Gordon Smith Quotes

When there’s an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our – our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged – the elderly and the disadvantaged who can’t afford a $200-a-month cable bill.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race – and there aren’t many – a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.

My mother always said, ‘The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.’

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.

Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity.

If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV ‘haves and have-nots,’ they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation’s only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption – demonstrating a quantifiable value for ‘must-have’ broadcast programming.

For years, broadcasters didn’t get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

Broadcasting’s best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow’s technological world.

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I’m simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.