We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically.… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly:… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we… — Loretta Sanchez Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image