Cards Quote by Damian Green

The first duty of government is to ensure its citizens are protected, but ID cards could never have done that. They would have been…

— Damian Green

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need…

— Chris Grayling

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of…

— Paul Simon

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes.…

— Bruce Schneier

The ID card was launched with fantastic claims about supposed benefits. In truth, it represented the worst of government.

— Damian Green

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

— Chris Grayling

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects,…

— Malcolm Wallop

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose…

— Ron Paul

It will be a comprehensive response. The ID issue is one of them. It will make sure that Home Affairs has the capacity to…

— Thabo Mbeki

“There’s more deceit and dishonesty. In 1950, I was fourteen years old and applied for a work permit for an after-school job. One of…

— Walter E. Williams

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other…

— Ron Lewis

“ID issue would bedevil countless FEMA officials in the days ahead—the agency’s barebones IDs, which lacked many standard government markings like an authorizing signature…

— Garrett M. Graff