Political Quotes

“As the gentleman knows from hearings that we have held in our Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, we are going through a major revolution in America that the people really do not understand. In fact, we only have had one other revolution of this kind in our country's history. It was when we changed from an agrarian country where we made most of our living on the farms and on the land to an industrial economy, where people went to work in our factories building products and materials. It was a difficult change for America, but we did it because we wanted to lead the world economy in the 1900s, and we did it very successfully. Now we are going through a similar revolution, changing from an industrial economy to an information economy, where more and more every day in our lives we are affected by the use of computers and information technology. As a result, some very interesting and difficult challenges face us, because the single biggest technology, probably, to improving our quality of life has been the use of information technology.”