About family Quote by Dick Durbin

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!

— Joel Salatin

Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the…

— Charles M. Blow

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether…

— Edward Snowden

“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in check by…

— Glenn Greenwald

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of…

— Matt Taibbi

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets…

— Julian Assange

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about…

— Al Franken

“knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of…

— Glenn Greenwald

There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

— Julian Assange

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual…

— Ron Wyden

“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and actions unfold.…

— James William Steven Parker