Quotes from Gordon Smith

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.

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

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

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

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?

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.

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

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

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

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.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

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.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

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

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

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