Benjamin Wittes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Rights #Data #Bills
Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Impact #Government #Asking
As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Office #President #Want
Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Office #House #Political
Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Independence #World #Telling The Truth
When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Thinking #Promise #Would Be
You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.
-- Benjamin Wittes

#Long #Compromise

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
Iâ€™d rather be a straight â€˜self-proclaimed homosexualâ€™ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.
Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

Benjamin Wittes famous quotes

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