Bram Cohen Quotes

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

The Constitution is not the only way we preserve rights in America. We have the common law and political action.

Law cannot stand apart from the social changes around it.

Public opinion is always in advance of the law.

We should put this one-man show behind us. Instead of talking about individuals we should at last be talking about institutions and laws.

We live in a scientific revolution. In such an epoch of revolutionary change, those who identity laissez-faire with liberty are enemies, however unwitting, of democracy

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

Politics is about making institutions work somewhat better, helping people’s lives at the margins

In circumstances involving dramatic technological change, the best solution to privacy concerns may be legislative. A legislative body is well situated to gauge changing public attitudes, to draw detailed lines, and to balance privacy and public safety in a comprehensive way.

I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

I'm going to Congress to break down the doors of power.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America's political circus, they send in the lawyers.

We are not entering into politics to acquire power.

If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.