All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.