I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Often blaming, is a trait of a childish soul.

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

I prefer the term ‘sexual deviant’ myself,” Saiman said.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.