Quotes About Communication

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.