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I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Apps
Iphone
Thinking
Use
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I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Concluded
Few Things
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My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Neighbor
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I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Oregon
Party
Republican Party
Wish
Healthier
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Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Local
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I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Oregon
Senate
Never Thought Would
Elect
Mormon
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My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Best Way
Best Mother Always
Best Way Always
Ruin
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The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Being Free
Free Market
People
American People
Free People More
Victimized
Warrant
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Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Creation
Job Creation
Private Sector
Proven
Records
Romney
Governor
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Sector
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In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Player
Sock
Used
Socks
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We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
However
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I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Government
Believe
Hate
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Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Advertising
Grammy
Performers
Radio
Grabbed
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Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Broadcasting
Tomorrow
Ahead
Engine
Lie
Integral
Integral Part
Local
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I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Imagine
Sound
Uncertain
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For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Consent
Nickels
Selling
Years
Broadcast
Cable
Nickel
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When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Life And Death
Weather
Broadcaster
Emergency
Local
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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?
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Daughter
Dental
Mental Health
Exams
Mental
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Antenna
Disadvantaged
Elderly
Underprivileged
Afford
Bill
Cable
Depend
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Access
Pay
Programming
Should
Signals
Tvs
Backs
Broadcast
Businesses
Fair
Local
Network
Price
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Differences
Newspapers
Opinion
Published
Realm
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Accord
Business Deals
Common Threads
Deals
Media
Mutual
Thread
Business Day Every Day
Successfully
Throughout
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From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Kings
Stories
West
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The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Opportunity
Achieve
Dollars
Full Potential
Giving
Promise
School
Disabilities
Ensure
Every Opportunity
Provide
Schools
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Broadcasting
Fleeting
Important
Innovative
People
Staying
Staying Power
App
Download
In The End
Latest
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Demonstrating
Disruption
Programming
Providers
Alternative
Broadcast
Rare
Flee
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Activity
Lawmakers
Annual
Basis
Broadcast
Billion
Directly
Economic Activity
Generate
Good Reason
Provide
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Bail
Clinton
Consistently
Effort
Genocide
President
President Clinton
Efforts
Votes
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Consistency
Emotional
Race
Retirement
Tribute
Carrying
Senator
Freight
Otherwise
Speaking
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Opportunity
Achieve
Children
Differences
Greater
Retirement
Unreachable
Window
Aside
Attempt
Rare
Partisan
Perhaps
Recent
Recent Years
Retirement Security
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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.
Gordon Smith / Former United States Senator
Communication
Air
Avoiding
Broadcasting
Favors
Providers
Refrain
Communications
Favor
Local
Policies
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