Bill Clinton Quotes

Our goal in life ought to be to extend this medium [the Internet] so that it is available to every man, woman and child in the country.

There's a large risk to our society if a group of people doesn't have access to technology or even the desire to get on the Net and see what opportunities are out there. Technology can be a great equalizer.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

It is important to note that Internet access is not a necessity in the day-to-day lives of Americans and doesn't even come close to the threshold to be considered a basic human right.

I've talked a lot about the need to promote digital empowerment: to enable any American who wants high-speed Internet access, or broadband, to get it.

Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

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

We tend to look at computers and the Internet as items of nicety. In the 21st century, they will be items of necessity.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

We need an equity plan for technology in general.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.

Technology has transformed how we live, learn and work, but not everyone has been able to participate in these developments.

The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

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

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.