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"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."
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"George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions."
"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."
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"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."
"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."
"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."
"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."
"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors."
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