Beth Simone Noveck Quotes

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

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.

The central political problem of our time is how to adapt our venerable democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We need better policies to obtain the benefits of innovation as quickly as possible and to manage the social problems that speedier innovation will inevitably create—from pollution to weapons of mass destruction.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Working people vote!

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I love politics.

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

People are what this election is all about.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Does any of you believe that we can solve our country's problems in five years? That is why we do not have this nonsense of elections.

The day of billboard and bumper sticker elections is over.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

It is very easy to have elections. It is very difficult to consolidate political order.

The technological transformation of society contains within itself the dynamo of its own management, but only if we create laws and regulations to permit the information revolution to wash through our democratic structures.

The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn't to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

Elections are about choices.

Every vote matters.