"I think there are certainly going to be lots of debates about the Internet. My hunch is that the First Amendment rights are going to prevail, and that in fact this is an astonishingly free country and pretty much intends to remain that way, and the Internet will just be one more expression of our freedom... I think [with encryption] you have a different set of questions. I think clearly no American wants terrorists to be able to have a level of secrecy which enables them to organize ways of killing people, on the other hand people do want the right to confidentiality. I think that is a very...that is going to take some time to explore." - Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich in response to questions about free speech and crypto by Jeff Ubois at the opening ceremony for the Smithsonian institution WWW site, May 1995.
