“Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.”

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion – no public funding for abortion.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues “Democrat, Republican, and Independent” agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that’s a statement.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth.

if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.