Theodore Stevens Quotes

• [The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

  Theodore Stevens

  Lines, Messages, Internet

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• The internet is a series of tubes, and all of those tubes are filled with Joe Francis' semen.

  Theodore Stevens

  Internet, Filled, Tubes

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• I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Friday, Morning, Technology

  "Your Own Personal Internet", www.wired.com. June 30, 2006.

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• The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Internet, Truck, Dump

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• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Theodore Stevens

  Hard Work, Agreement, Voice

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• I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

  Theodore Stevens

  Effort, Community, Currents

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• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Theodore Stevens

  Men, Thinking, Gender Gap

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• I would urge that we all use a little bit of caution in dealing with an issue that is so vital to our national security.

  Theodore Stevens

  Issues, Use, Littles

  "U.S. agency says doubt on port sale is resolved" by Carl Hulse, David E. Sanger, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2006.

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• The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

  Theodore Stevens

  Book, Agency, America

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• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  Theodore Stevens

  Reform, Faces, Should

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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  Theodore Stevens

  People, Voting, Today

  "A Senator Whom Colleagues Are Hesitant to Cross" by Carl Hulse, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 2003.

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• The Internet...is a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Technology, Internet, Tubes

  "Sen. Ted Stevens: 'The Internet is a Series of Tubes'” by Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. July 13, 2006.

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