Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.

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

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

Congress members put their ideology ahead of your prosperity.

In our political system it’s easier to block action than to act.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

Now we have the hacker kids playing politics.

Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.

I know politics; I know the media.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Congress is dysfunctional.

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

A Senator of the United States … serves his people by joining in the petty squabbles that occupy so much time of the Senate today. I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I’d rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.