Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.