By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked…

Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans…

— Barack Obama

“Hamilton’s second pamphlet made clear his maturing belief that private interest was the glue that would hold American society together and make it succeed.…

— Willard Sterne Randall

I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments…

— William J. Clinton

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films,…

— Wilma Mankiller

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“Americans, I’d learned, walked less than any other industrialized nation on earth, with the average US native taking 5,117 steps daily compared to 9,695…

— Martin Lindstrom

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than…

— John Katzman

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and…

— Stephen Colbert

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses…

— Tom A. Watson

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

— Barack Obama

Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion…

— Sharyl Attkisson