There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.