Bill of rights Quote by Gore Vidal

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we…

— Edward Snowden

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the…

— Studs Terkel

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

If there's anything I have learned since returning to Congress, it's that talk is still cheap, progress is still slow, and our liberties continue…

— Matt Salmon

I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of…

— Ron Paul

This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this…

— Charlie Pierce

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping…

— Barack Obama

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

— Ronald Kessler

The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists…

— Ted Cruz

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I…

— Rand Paul

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of…

— Ted Cruz

“The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecom providers, under…

— Glenn Greenwald