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"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
"You measure a government by how few people need help."
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government."
"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."
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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."
"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that."
"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."
"Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle."
"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."
"Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that."
"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"
"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."
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