If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

The value of "one person, one vote," the value of equality, is a value that was given to us more than 50 years ago as a central part of our constitutional tradition. So, under that principle, we ought to be applying the same standard today that I would have said we should have applied a year ago.

Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.