William J. Clinton Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Patriotic, High Heels

• The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, United States, World

• I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Keys, People

• Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Eye, Technology

• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, America, People

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

• Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

  William J. Clinton

  Writing, Mail, Connections

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1758, Government Printing Office

• Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, America, Political

• Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Kids, Science

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1968, Best Books on

• We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

  William J. Clinton

  Internet Access, Skills, Goal

• That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

  William J. Clinton

  Development, World, Internet

  "President Clinton to Propose National Cyber-Security Center". "Early Edition", cnn.com. February 15, 2000.

• Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Tuning, Way

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.212, Best Books on

• Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

  William J. Clinton

  Goal, Connections, Today

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.172, Best Books on

• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, People, Together

• The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Media, Healthy

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

• Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Years, Today

• If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Looks, Growing

  President Clinton's Discussion with Students at T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov. April 22, 1999.

• I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Home, Thinking

  President Clinton's Discussion with Students at T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov. April 22, 1999.

• One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

  William J. Clinton

  Epidemics, Government, Organization

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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