Justify Quote by Edward Snowden

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

— Noam Chomsky

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep…

— Noam Chomsky

In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law…

— Barack Obama

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be…

— Greg Nickels

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

— Edward Snowden

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

— William J. Clinton

“The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake of this…

— Glenn Greenwald

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange…

— David Blunkett

The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or…

— Dick Cheney

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

— Trevor Paglen

“Most remarkably, Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism:”

— Glenn Greenwald

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global…

— Barack Obama