Top 1200 Access To Information Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.

Broadband access is important for everyone, for telemedicine, for telehealth, for communicating.

Access to equal opportunity should not be constrained by zip-code.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has been in the past. But it is important to recognize that the democracy depends on reporters asking people in power questions, so that the general public has information. We can't really self-govern unless information is widespread. And, sometimes, reporters have to be a little aggressive. I mean, you know, the reporter didn't beat up the politician. The politician beat up the reporter.

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

We must stand vigilant to protect our voting access.

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know.

It is true that ADs do not get a chance to get a chance to create or produce, almost never, because it's whole separate thing. Most creative producers you have to come up on the development side, you work with agents, you work with writers, you're in the office and then the AD's are on the set. But it's a real shame because part of - no decision in producing can be made correctly unless you have all the creative information you need but you also have all the budget and scheduling information you need.

There's a bigger question again about how to do prevention. It's not simply about putting out the early warning. The early warning was put out on Abyei; everybody knew that this was coming. This was intentional, and still it happened. So this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of. I think it's about how you move that information into the policy process.

The problem in South is we don't have access to much of Hindi cinema.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

I think I'm a reporter's editor. Being a good reporter is a specific skill, one I admire and don't possess myself - I appreciate people who know how to ask the right questions, who are excellent researchers, who know how to assemble information, and I enjoy working with them to shape their information into an article. Good reporters tend to be receptive to editing, and to a more collaborative form of writing in general, and you always end up learning more from how they work than you expect you will.

Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

My access point to the '70s is films from that time, and they all have that paranoiac quality.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.

Writing, when it works, one needs to access whatever it is that creates dreams.

There's an instant access to luxury that I think women really appreciate.

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.

I didn't have role models to look up to because there was no access to them.

Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

If you work with a big director, access to stars becomes easier.