A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don’t know whether that’s possible.
Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
You’re likable enough, Hillary.
I don’t mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that’s what I signed up to do.
Iran won’t pursue nuclear weapons because ‘it’s contrary to their faith.’
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.
Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.
So I think it’s important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we’re doing.
I don’t welcome leaks. There’s a reason why these programs are classified.
I wouldn’t consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
I’m a strong believer in strong encryption.
My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.
What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.
Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech – because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren’t doing it for the money. Their titles weren’t fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.