John McCain Quotes

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

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

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

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

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.

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

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

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

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

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.

One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.

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

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

We must close the digital divide.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

Access to information is a fundamental human right.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.