Citizens Quote by Harry Belafonte

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that…

— Paul Broun

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

— Ron Wyden

The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be…

— William Greider

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

— Donald Trump

“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is…

— Ron Wyden

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

— Janet Napolitano

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only…

— Edward Snowden

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate…

— Mike Pence

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and…

— Richard A. Falk

Homeland Security is hometown security.

— Kay Ivey

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay…

— Aaron Swartz

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