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President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.

Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

I fully support global commerce.