Access Quote by J. C. Watts

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work…

— Tom Brokaw

It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We…

— Noam Chomsky

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated…

— E. L. Doctorow

“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our every word,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

— Ted Cruz

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have…

— Alberto Gonzales

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

— Thomas Sowell

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your…

— Doug Liman

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people…

— Ted Cruz

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut…

— Francine Busby

In Washington, it's very easy to privilege just some set of voices and not another set of voices. And so we try to open…

— Lina Khan

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and…

— Anne Applebaum