Surveillance Quotes

128 Surveillance quotes by 97 unique authors

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when… — Chris Van Hollen
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve… — Ron Wyden
Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute… — Ron Wyden
We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after… — Larry Craig
Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term? — Damian Thompson
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the… — Louis Stokes
While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in… — Jonathan Turley
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. — Agnes Smedley
We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of… — Gaston Bachelard
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering… — Jeffrey Rosen
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author,… — Gore Vidal
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence… — John F. Kennedy
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real… — Chris Hedges
The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately — Ron Wyden
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans… — Stephen Colbert
We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to… — Maria Montessori
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect.… — Gregory Palamas
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to… — John Conyers
As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through… — Jeremy Hammond
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look… — Peter Weir
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home." — Mark Twain
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding. — Stephen Colbert
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. — Edward Snowden
Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or… — Geraldo Rivera
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge

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