Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential…

Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to…

— Edward Snowden

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue…

— Floyd Abrams

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even…

— Rod Lurie

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when…

— Lowell Bergman

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

— Pete du Pont

In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of…

— Philip Elmer-DeWitt

There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do…

— John Ashcroft

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have…

— Preet Bharara

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it…

— George W. Bush

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

— Nat Hentoff

So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency…

— Matt Blaze

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a…

— John Ridley

On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is…

— Mitch McConnell

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch

We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying…

— Hillary Clinton