Ryan Shapiro famous quotes

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Government #Democracy #Information

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Democracy #Function #Informed Citizenry

I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Government #Names #Justice

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Government #Practice #People

The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Community #Doe #Information

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Today #Heroic #Fighter

I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#Government #People #Citizens

As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.
-- Ryan Shapiro

#World #Disparity #Peter

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.