American Quote by Helen Thomas

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

— Pete du Pont

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those…

— Margaret Carlson

“Remember that there was great controversy that George Bush asserted the power simply to detain American citizens without due process or simply to eavesdrop…

— Jeremy Scahill

Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on…

— Samuel Alito

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

— Sherrod Brown

Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to…

— Cenk Uygur

“President Bush even authorized the National Security Agency to monitor— without preclearance from a judge—phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens. In”

— Todd Donovan

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

— Roger Stone

“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more National…

— Luke Harding

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

— John Dean

“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

If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and…

— Paul Begala