Philip Hammond, UK Minister of Defense:

[Cyber] is the new frontier of defence. For years, we have been building a defensive capability to protect ourselves against these cyber attacks. That is no longer enough.

You deter people by having an offensive capability.

Undersecretary of Commerce Mark Foulon:

It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient.

Tyler Cohen:

Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

Thomas Powers, in 2005:

More is what Congress is ready to support and fund, more is what the President wants, and more is what we are going to get.