Barack Obama Quotes

BP today finally managed to almost completely stop the flow of information.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

If formerly restrictive regimes can be persuaded to see the free flow of information not as a threat to the power of sovereign states, but as the creator of a viable economic infrastructure and a population incentivised to take advantage of the new economy, the next century will be promising indeed.

Democracies can’t accomplish much of anything without the free flow of information – including waging the war on terrorism.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

The free flow of information is vital for economic development.

There were no bubbles before there were media.

Progress in a globally interdependent society relies more than ever on the unimpeded flow of information.

… in the modern world, in which any tom‐dick‐or‐harry has ready access to the Internet, the professional press is no longer a necessary intermediary for leakers.

At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of information will be seen as having something taken away. We've seen time and again - in Egypt and Iran, for example - that creates a backlash.

In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

In a broadcast society, there were these gatekeepers, the editors, and they controlled the flows of information. Along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome. But that's not actually what's happening right now.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's more on the side of free thought.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.