These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

A child can escape the shadows.

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.

I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass.

If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that's up to the players then to make the decision about whether they're going to play or not play.

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

People are very protective of their cell phones how its used where its used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.

We used to have a crew of three on board the space station and even at one time a crew of two people, so it's something we can adjust to.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

It is good to know that out there in a forest in the world there is a cabin where something is possible

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

I was quite naughty at school.

I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

When I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time.

Good fences make good neighbours.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.